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CVE

GHSA-f8cc-g7j8-xxpm

XStream can cause a Denial of Service by injecting deeply nested objects raising a stack overflow
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CVE

GHSA-f8cc-g7j8-xxpm

XStream can cause a Denial of Service by injecting deeply nested objects raising a stack overflow

Impact

The 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.

Patches

XStream 1.4.20 handles the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead.

Workarounds

The only solution is to catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream.

References

See full information about the nature of the vulnerability and the steps to reproduce it in XStream's documentation for CVE-2022-40151.

Credits

The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Henry Lin of the Google OSS-Fuzz team.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
6.5
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
C
H
U
7.5
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Related Resources

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References

https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/security/advisories/GHSA-f8cc-g7j8-xxpm, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40151, https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304, https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/314, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47367, https://github.com/x-stream/xstream, https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2022-40151.html

Severity

7.5

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
7.5
EPSS Probability
0.00245%
EPSS Percentile
0.47593%
Introduced Version
1.1,0.5,0.1
Fix Available
1.4.20

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