CVE-2016-0686

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0686 is an unspecified critical vulnerability in Oracle Java SE (versions 6u113, 7u99, 8u77) and Java SE Embedded (8u77), specifically impacting the Serialization component. With a CVSS score of 9.6, it allows remote attackers to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity, though user interaction is required. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.6.0:update113::::::
		1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update99::::::
		1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.8.0:update77::::::
		1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.6.0:update113::::::
		1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:1.7.0:update99::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.6CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

6.0

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

4.72%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

90.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-24

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0472 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 834 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (31)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.4.1-1jpp.1.el6_8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.101-1jpp.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.115-1jpp.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.91-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.101-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.115-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.91-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.101-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.115-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.101-2.6.6.1.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.39-1.13.11.0.el5_11

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.40-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.25-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.91-0.b14.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.101-2.6.6.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.39-1.13.11.0.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.25-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.3.0-1jpp.1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.91-0.b14.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.101-2.6.6.1.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.39-1.13.11.0.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.3.0-1jpp.1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.40-1jpp.1.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.0.2-109.el5sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.4.1-1jpp.1.el6_8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.40-1jpp.1.el6_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.3.8-146.el6sat

oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-0686Critical

OpenJDK: insufficient thread consistency checks in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8129952)

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00006.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00009.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00012.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00021.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00022.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00026.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00027.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00039.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00040.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00042.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00058.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00059.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00061.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00067.html

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00002.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0650.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0651.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0675.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0676.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0677.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0678.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0679.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0701.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0702.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0708.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0716.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0723.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1039.html

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:1430

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1216

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201606-18

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20160420-0001

debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3558

oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html

Vendor Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

securityfocus.com / bid/86473

securitytracker.com / id/1035596

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2963-1

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2964-1

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2972-1