CVE-2021-21351 — XStream is vulnerable to an Arbitrary Code Execution attack
XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream before version 1.4.16, there is a vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to load and execute …
Published: 2021-03-22 · CVSS: 5.4 · CVSS 3.1
XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream before version 1.4.16, there is a vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to load and execute arbitrary code from a remote host only by manipulating the processed input stream. No user is affected, who followed the recommendation to setup XStream's security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types. If you rely on XStream's default blacklist of the Security Framework, you will have to use at least version 1.4.16.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7