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SCA: security update for com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream (GHSA-7hwc-46rm-65jh)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412096

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - XStream through 1.4.9, when a certain denyTypes workaround is not used, mishandles attempts to create an
 instance of the primitive type 'void' during unmarshalling, leading to a remote application crash, as
 demonstrated by an xstream.fromXML("<void/>") call. (CVE-2017-7957)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7hwc-46rm-65jh

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412096

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7957

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7957

BID: 100687

cwe: CWE-20