Insecure XML deserialization Affecting com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream Open this link in a new tab package, versions [,1.4.7) [1.4.10,1.4.11)
Exploit Maturity
Mature
Attack Complexity
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-COMTHOUGHTWORKSXSTREAM-460764
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published
25 Dec 2016
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disclosed
22 Dec 2013
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credit
Dinis Cruz
Introduced: 22 Dec 2013
CVE-2013-7285 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream
to version 1.4.7, 1.4.11 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 Insecure XML deserialization. It could deserialize arbitrary user-supplied XML content, representing objects of any type. A remote attacker able to pass XML to XStream could use this flaw to perform a variety of attacks, including remote code execution in the context of the server running the XStream application.