CVE-2015-4852

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Exploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2015-4869 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 95%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

The WLS Security component in Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6.0, 12.1.2.0, 12.1.3.0, and 12.2.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object in T3 protocol traffic to TCP port 7001, related to oracle_common/modules/com.bea.core.apache.commons.collections.jar. NOTE: the scope of this CVE is limited to the WebLogic Server product.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
99
EG Risk 99/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
95%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
95% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-11). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4852

Published

November 18, 2015

Last Modified

April 21, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Nov 6, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available.
Web page

PSIRT.COM — Product Security Incident Response Team

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77539
Web page

oss-security - Re: Assign CVE for common-collections remote code execution on deserialisation flaw

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/19
Web page🟡 PoC Available

What Do WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Jenkins, OpenNMS, and Your Application Have in Common? This Vulnerability.

http://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibcommons-collections3-java-doc (3.2.1-6ubuntu0.1~esm1) @ trusty2026-11-02ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 54× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

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  3. 2026-11-12 14:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-11 12:38 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-11 12:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  7. 2026-11-10 10:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  10. 2026-11-09 08:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-11-08 06:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-11-08 06:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  14. 2026-11-07 04:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  16. 2026-11-06 02:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  18. 2026-11-05 00:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  20. 2026-11-03 22:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  22. 2026-11-02 20:35 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-11-02 20:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-11-01 18:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  3. 2026-10-31 16:34 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-31 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  9. 2026-10-30 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  12. 2026-10-29 12:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  16. 2026-10-28 10:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  19. 2026-10-27 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  35. 2026-10-21 22:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  39. 2026-10-20 20:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  43. 2026-10-18 16:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  46. 2026-10-17 16:16 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-17 16:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  51. 2026-10-16 14:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  54. 2026-10-15 12:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  63. 2026-10-12 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 96% · 99th percentile
  64. 2026-10-12 06:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  65. 2026-10-12 01:47 UTCVendor advisory
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  68. 2026-10-11 21:27 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-10-11 21:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  71. 2026-10-11 17:06 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-10-11 17:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r6v-mxc2-pg49 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  74. 2026-10-11 12:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  75. 2026-10-11 12:47 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(7 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 3 Exploit-DB entries, 2 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 GitHub checker repository. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-46628✓ verified
    Published Mar 28, 2019

    Oracle Weblogic Server Deserialization RCE - Raw Object (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/misc/weblogic_deserialize_rawobject✓ verified
    Published Mar 26, 2019

    Oracle Weblogic Server Deserialization RCE - Raw Object

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCzhzhdoai/Weblogic_Vuln
    Published Aug 10, 2020

    CVE-2015-4852、CVE-2016-0638、CVE-2016-3510、CVE-2019-2890漏洞POC

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub checkerAndersonSingh/serialization-vulnerability-scanner
    Published Nov 25, 2017

    CVE-2015-4852 Oracle WebLogic Scanner

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-42806
    Published Sep 27, 2017

    Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6.0 - Java Deserialization Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-44552
    Published Jul 20, 2016

    Websphere/JBoss/OpenNMS/Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager - Java Deserialization Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCroo7break/serialator
    Published Mar 3, 2016

    Python script to exploit CVE-2015-4852.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2015-4852?
CVE-2015-4852 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on November 18, 2015. The WLS Security component in Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6.0, 12.1.2.0, 12.1.3.0, and 12.2.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object in T3 protocol traffic to TCP port 7001, related to…
When was CVE-2015-4852 made public?
CVE-2015-4852 was made public on November 6, 2015: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Oracle, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on November 18, 2015. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 21, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2015-4852 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2015-4852 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, affecting Oracle WebLogic Server. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2015-4852?
CVE-2015-4852 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2015-4852?
CVE-2015-4852 affects Oracle WebLogic Server.
How do I remediate CVE-2015-4852?
A fix for CVE-2015-4852 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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