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CVE-2021-21341

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.77801
Risk score
57.23
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2021-03-22
Modified
2024-08-03
First seen
2026-08-08
Aliases
EUVD-2021-0586, GHSA-2P3X-QW9C-25HH
Products
x-stream:xstream < 1.4.16
Sources
euvd EUVD-2021-0586

Description

XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream before version 1.4.16, there is vulnerability which may allow a remote attacker to allocate 100% CPU time on the target system depending on CPU type or parallel execution of such a payload resulting in a denial of service only by manipulating the processed input stream. No user is affected who followed the recommendation to setup XStream's security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types. If you rely on XStream's default blacklist of the Security Framework, you will have to use at least version 1.4.16.

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