x-stream/xstream · Security
Denial of service in XStream
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-7hwc-46rm-65jh
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-7957
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7957 ↗
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/6e546ec366419158b1e393211be6d78ab9604ab ↗
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/8542d02d9ac5d384c85f4b33d6c1888c53bd55d ↗
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/b3570be2f39234e61f99f9a20640756ea71b1b4 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1832 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2888 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2889 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125800 ↗
- https://www-prd-trops.events.ibm.com/node/715749 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3841 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100687 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039499 ↗
- http://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2017-7957.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7hwc-46rm-65jh ↗