The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5946-1 advisory.

  - XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In affected versions this     vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to load and execute arbitrary code from a remote host only by     manipulating the processed input stream. A user is only affected if using the version out of the box with     JDK 1.7u21 or below. However, this scenario can be adjusted easily to an external Xalan that works     regardless of the version of the Java runtime. No user is affected, who followed the recommendation to     setup XStream's security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types. XStream 1.4.18     uses no longer a blacklist by default, since it cannot be secured for general purpose. (CVE-2021-39139)

  - XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In affected versions this     vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to allocate 100% CPU time on the target system depending on CPU     type or parallel execution of such a payload resulting in a denial of service 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. XStream 1.4.18 uses no longer a     blacklist by default, since it cannot be secured for general purpose. (CVE-2021-39140)

  - XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In affected versions this     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. XStream 1.4.18 uses     no longer a blacklist by default, since it cannot be secured for general purpose. (CVE-2021-39141,     CVE-2021-39145, CVE-2021-39146, CVE-2021-39147, CVE-2021-39148, CVE-2021-39149, CVE-2021-39151,     CVE-2021-39154)

  - XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In affected versions this     vulnerability may allow a remote attacker has sufficient rights to execute commands of the 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. XStream 1.4.18 uses     no longer a blacklist by default, since it cannot be secured for general purpose. (CVE-2021-39144)

  - XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In affected versions this     vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to request data from internal resources that are not publicly     available only by manipulating the processed input stream with a Java runtime version 14 to 8. 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](https://x-stream.github.io/security.html#framework), you will have to use at least version     1.4.18. (CVE-2021-39150, CVE-2021-39152)

  - XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In affected versions this     vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to load and execute arbitrary code from a remote host only by     manipulating the processed input stream, if using the version out of the box with Java runtime version 14     to 8 or with JavaFX installed. No user is affected, who followed the recommendation to setup XStream's     security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types. XStream 1.4.18 uses no longer a     blacklist by default, since it cannot be secured for general purpose. (CVE-2021-39153)

  - XStream serializes Java objects to XML and back again. Versions prior to 1.4.20 may allow a remote     attacker to terminate the application with a stack overflow error, resulting in a denial of service only     via manipulation the processed input stream. The attack uses the hash code implementation for collections     and maps to force recursive hash calculation causing a stack overflow. This issue is patched in version     1.4.20 which handles the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead. A potential     workaround for users who only use HashMap or HashSet and whose XML refers these only as default map or     set, is to change the default implementation of java.util.Map and java.util per the code example in the     referenced advisory. However, this implies that your application does not care about the implementation of     the map and all elements are comparable. (CVE-2022-41966)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : XStream vulnerabilities (USN-5946-1)

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Version 1.3 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.2 Mar 14, 2023, 2:09 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework metasploit" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202303141409
Version 1.1 Mar 13, 2023, 10:04 PM CEA reference Plugin Feed: 202303132204
Version 1.0 Mar 13, 2023, 6:45 PM New Plugin Feed: 202303131845