XStream can cause a Denial of Service by injecting deeply nested objects raising a stack overflow
### 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. ### Patches XStream 1.4.20 handles the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead. ### Workarounds The only solution is to catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream. ### References See full information about the nature of the vulnerability and the steps to reproduce it in XStream's documentation for [CVE-2022-40151](https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2022-40151.html). ### Credits The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Henry Lin of the Google OSS-Fuzz team. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [XStream](https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues) * Contact us at [XStream Google Group](https://groups.google.com/group/xstream-user)
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-40151US | high7.5 | — | ||
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… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47367WEB
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstreamPACKAGE
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304WEB
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/314WEB
- https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/security/advisories/GHSA-f8cc-g7j8-xxpmWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40151ADVISORY
- https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2022-40151.htmlWEB
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