CVE-2021-29505

Publication date

2021-05-28 21:00:19

Family

GitHub_M

State

PUBLISHED

Description

XStream is software for serializing Java objects to XML and back again. A vulnerability in XStream versions prior to 1.4.17 may allow a remote attacker has sufficient rights to execute commands of the host only by manipulating the processed input stream. No user who followed the recommendation to setup XStreams security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types is affected. The vulnerability is patched in version 1.4.17.