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SCA: security update for com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream (GHSA-hrcp-8f3q-4w2c)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415917

Description

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

 - XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream before version 1.4.16,
 there is a vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to load and execute arbitrary code from a remote host
 only by manipulating the processed input stream. No user is affected, who followed the recommendation to
 setup XStream's security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types. If you rely on
 XStream's default blacklist of the Security Framework, you will have to use at least version 1.4.16.
 (CVE-2021-21351)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrcp-8f3q-4w2c

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 415917

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21351

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21351