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Arbitrary File Deletion Affecting com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream Open this link in a new tab package, versions [,1.4.15)

0.0
medium

  • Exploit Maturity

    Proof of concept

  • Attack Complexity

    High

  • Integrity

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JAVA-COMTHOUGHTWORKSXSTREAM-1051966

  • published

    16 Dec 2020

  • disclosed

    16 Dec 2020

  • credit

    Liaogui Zhong

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Introduced: 16 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-26259 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-22 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream to version 1.4.15 or higher.

Overview

com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion. A remote attacker can delete arbitrary known files on the host as long as the executing process has sufficient rights, by manipulating the processed input stream.