CVE-2021-21346

XStream is vulnerable to an Arbitrary Code Execution attack

State
Published
Severity
6.1 Medium
Published
Mar 22, 2021
Updated
Oct 7, 2026
Reserved
Dec 22, 2020

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Description

XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream before version 1.4.16, there is a vulnerability which may allow a remote attacker to load and execute arbitrary code from a remote host only by manipulating the processed input stream. No user is affected, who followed the recommendation to setup XStream's security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types. If you rely on XStream's default blacklist of the Security Framework, you will have to use at least version 1.4.16.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

ProductVersions
xstreamx-stream
  • < 1.4.16Affected

References

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