GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-7hwc-46rm-65jh Denial of service in XStream

HIGH Published 2020-06-30 Modified 2025-05-23 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-7957
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-20
Reviewed
2020-06-30

Affected packages

• Maven com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream: < 1.4.10 → fixed in 1.4.10

Description

XStream through 1.4.9, when a certain denyTypes workaround is not used, mishandles attempts to create an instance of the primitive type 'void' during unmarshalling, leading to a remote application crash, as demonstrated by an xstream.fromXML("") call.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-7957 XStream through 1.4.9, when a certain denyTypes workaround is not used, mishandles attempts to create an instance of the primitive type… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References