CVE-2024-47072
XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. This 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. XStream 1.4.21 has been patched to detect the manipulation in the binary input stream causing the the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream if XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 51 days later
· 51 days later
Published
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavencom.thoughtworks.xstream:xstreamGHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/security/advisories/GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/bb838ce2269cac47433e31c77b2b236466e9f266 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2024-47072.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00023.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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