{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q","published":"2024-11-07T21:51:17Z","modified":"2026-08-07T08:12:24.322064352Z","aliases":["CVE-2024-47072"],"summary":"XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream","details":"### Impact\nThe 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.\n\n### Patches\nXStream 1.4.21 detects the manipulation in the binary input stream causing the the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead.\n\n### Workarounds\nThe only solution is to catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream if XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver.\n\n### References\nSee 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).\n\n### Credits\nAlexis Challande of Trail Of Bits found and reported the issue to XStream and provided the required information to reproduce it.","affected":[{"package":{"name":"com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/com.thoughtworks.xstream/xstream"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.4.21"}]}],"versions":["0.1","0.2","0.3","0.5","0.6","1.0","1.0.1","1.0.2","1.1","1.1.1","1.1.2","1.1.3","1.2","1.2.1","1.2.2","1.3","1.3.1","1.4","1.4.1","1.4.10","1.4.10-java7","1.4.11","1.4.11-java7","1.4.11.1","1.4.12","1.4.12-java7","1.4.13","1.4.13-java7","1.4.14","1.4.14-java7","1.4.14-jdk7","1.4.15","1.4.16","1.4.17","1.4.18","1.4.19","1.4.2","1.4.20","1.4.3","1.4.4","1.4.5","1.4.6","1.4.7","1.4.8","1.4.9"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/11/GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q/GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q.json"}}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/security/advisories/GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47072"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/bb838ce2269cac47433e31c77b2b236466e9f266"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/fdd9f7d3de0d7ccf2f9979bcd09fbf3e6a0c881a"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/x-stream/xstream"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00023.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2024-47072.html"}],"database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-121","CWE-502"],"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2024-11-07T21:51:17Z","nvd_published_at":"2024-11-08T00:15:14Z","severity":"HIGH"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P"}]}