CVE-2024-47072

XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Nov 7, 2024
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Sep 17, 2024

Description

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to terminate the application with a stack overflow error resulting in a denial of service only by manipulating the processed input stream when XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver. XStream 1.4.21 has been patched to detect the manipulation in the binary input stream causing the the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream if XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

Product	Versions
xstreamx-stream	< 1.4.21Affected

References

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