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SCA: security update for com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream (GHSA-4cch-wxpw-8p28)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 410103

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 1.4.15, a
 Server-Side Forgery Request vulnerability can be activated when unmarshalling. The vulnerability may allow
 a remote attacker to request data from internal resources that are not publicly available only by
 manipulating the processed input stream. If you rely on XStream's default blacklist of the Security
 Framework, you will have to use at least version 1.4.15. The reported vulnerability does not exist if
 running Java 15 or higher. No user is affected who followed the recommendation to setup XStream's Security
 Framework with a whitelist! Anyone relying on XStream's default blacklist can immediately switch to a
 whilelist for the allowed types to avoid the vulnerability. Users of XStream 1.4.14 or below who still
 want to use XStream default blacklist can use a workaround described in more detailed in the referenced
 advisories. (CVE-2020-26258)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4cch-wxpw-8p28

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 410103

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: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26258

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26258

cwe: CWE-918