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SCA: security update for com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream (GHSA-f6hm-88x3-mfjv)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 414330

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 which may allow a remote attacker to request data from internal resources that
 are not publicly available 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-2021-21349)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f6hm-88x3-mfjv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 414330

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-2021-21349

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 3/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21349