XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream (x-stream xstream)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 2.00 % · percentile 81 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- GitHub_M
- NVD status
- Deferred
Description
XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to terminate the application with a stack overflow error resulting in a denial of service only by manipulating the processed input stream when XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver. XStream 1.4.21 has been patched to detect the manipulation in the binary input stream causing the the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream if XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver.
Weaknesses (CWE)
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary) |
Advisories
- GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q — XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-3262
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-47072
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0810 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0641 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0249 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0109 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0435 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Atlassian · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0422 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans IBM QRadar SIEM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0218 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Atlassian Jira · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| x-stream · xstream | affected < 1.4.21 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |