Arbitrary File Deletion Affecting com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream package, versions [,1.4.15)
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
57.55% (98th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMTHOUGHTWORKSXSTREAM-1051966
- published 16 Dec 2020
- disclosed 16 Dec 2020
- credit Liaogui Zhong
Introduced: 16 Dec 2020
CVE-2020-26259 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
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