CVE-2016-2510: Beanshell

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 70.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BeanShell (bsh) before 2.0b6, when included on the classpath by an application that uses Java serialization or XStream, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data, related to XThis.Handler.

Affected products

• Beanshell Beanshell: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2016-04-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.