CVE-2016-5003: Apache Ws-Xmlrpc

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 14.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library 3.1.3, as used in Apache Archiva, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized Java object in an <ex:serializable> element.

Affected products

• Apache Ws-Xmlrpc: version 3.1.3 only

Published 2017-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.