CVE-2016-6809: Apache Nutch

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Tika before 1.14 allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes JMatIO to do native deserialization.

Affected products

  • Apache Nutch: version 2.3.1 only
  • Apache Tika: up to and including 1.13

Published 2017-04-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.