Headline
GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q: XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream
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.
Credits
Alexis Challande of Trail Of Bits found and reported the issue to XStream and provided the required information to reproduce it.
- GitHub Advisory Database
- GitHub Reviewed
- CVE-2024-47072
XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream
High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 7, 2024 in x-stream/xstream • Updated Nov 7, 2024
Package
maven com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream (Maven)
Affected versions
< 1.4.21
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.
Credits
Alexis Challande of Trail Of Bits found and reported the issue to XStream and provided the required information to reproduce it.
References
- GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q
- x-stream/xstream@bb838ce
- x-stream/xstream@fdd9f7d
- https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2024-47072.html
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Nov 7, 2024