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.
Software afectado
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| Plataforma | Paquete | Versiones vulnerables | Corregida en |
|---|---|---|---|
| Java / Kotlin (Maven) | com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream | < 1.4.21 | 1.4.21 |
Referencias
- 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
- Vector CVSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Debilidad (CWE)
CWE-121, CWE-502- Plataforma
- Java / Kotlin (Maven)
- Paquete
com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream- Publicada
- 07.11.2024
- Actualizado
- 11.10.2026 12:22
Fuentes y licencias
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q - CC BY 4.0
Historial de vulnerabilidades: com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream
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- Primera → última
- 05.2019 11.2024
- Sin corrección
- 0
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- Alta 22
- Media 13
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- 2019: 2
- 2020: 5
- 2021: 26
- 2022: 3
- 2023: 0
- 2024: 1
- 2025: 0
- 2026: 0
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