Asymmetric denial of service In com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream
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Description
Duplicate Advisory: Denial of Service due to parser crash
Duplicate Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-f8cc-g7j8-xxpm. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
Those using Xstream to seralize XML data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Component | Affected version |
|---|---|---|
 maven |
Aliases
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References
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