CVE-2024-47072
XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream
Impact
### Impact The 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. ### Patches XStream 1.4.21 detects the manipulation in the binary input stream causing the the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead. ### Workarounds The only solution is to catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream if XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver. ### References See full information about the nature of the vulnerability and the steps to reproduce it in XStream's documentation for [CVE-2024-47072](https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2024-47072.html). ### Credits Alexis Challande of Trail Of Bits found and reported the issue to XStream and provided the required information to reproduce it.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream | < 1.4.21 | 1.4.21 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/bb838ce2269cac47433e31c77b2b236466e9f266
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/security/advisories/GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q
- https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2024-47072.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00023.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/fdd9f7d3de0d7ccf2f9979bcd09fbf3e6a0c881a
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47072