CVE-2021-39150

A Server-Side Forgery Request vulnerability in XStream via PriorityQueue unmarshaling

State
Published
Severity
8.5 High
Published
Aug 23, 2021
Updated
Oct 7, 2026
Reserved
Aug 16, 2021

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Description

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In affected versions this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to request data from internal resources that are not publicly available only by manipulating the processed input stream with a Java runtime version 14 to 8. 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](https://x-stream.github.io/security.html#framework), you will have to use at least version 1.4.18.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
  • CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
xstreamx-stream
  • < 1.4.18Affected

References

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