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CVE

GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q

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

GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q

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

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 when XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver.

Patches

XStream 1.4.21 detects the manipulation in the binary input stream causing the the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead.

Workarounds

The only solution is to catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream if XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver.

References

See full information about the nature of the vulnerability and the steps to reproduce it in XStream's documentation for CVE-2024-47072.

Credits

Alexis Challande of Trail Of Bits found and reported the issue to XStream and provided the required information to reproduce it.

Package Versions Affected

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com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream 1.4.7
Available
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com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream 1.4.10
Available
Unavailable
com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream 1.4.9
Available
Unavailable

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
7.5
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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
C
H
U
0
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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
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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-hfq9-hggm-c56q, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47072, https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/bb838ce2269cac47433e31c77b2b236466e9f266, https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/fdd9f7d3de0d7ccf2f9979bcd09fbf3e6a0c881a, https://github.com/x-stream/xstream, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00023.html, https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2024-47072.html

Severity

7.5

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
7.5
EPSS Probability
0.00354%
EPSS Percentile
0.57231%
Introduced Version
1.2
Fix Available
1.4.21

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