CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-26258

MediumCVSS 6.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
81.82%

100th percentile - higher than 100% of all known CVEs

Summary

XStream before 1.4.15 contains a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability activated during unmarshalling. A remote attacker can request data from internal resources not publicly available by manipulating the processed input stream.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can access internal network resources, potentially leading to data leakage or further attacks. The vulnerability does not exist on Java 15 or higher.

Recommendation

Update XStream to at least version 1.4.15. If using the default blacklist, switch to a whitelist of allowed types.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS