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High ALAS2-2023-2030 1 CVE

Important: xstream security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Apr 27, 2023 · Updated May 2, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-21342: XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream before version 1.4.16, there is a vulnerability where the processed stream at unmarshalling time contains type information to recreate the formerly written objects. XStream creates therefore new instances based on these type information. An attacker can manipulate the processed input stream and replace or inject objects, that result in a server-side forgery request. 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.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 xstream 0:1.3.1-16.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 xstream-javadoc 0:1.3.1-16.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2021-21342 EPSS 50%

    A Server-Side Forgery Request can be activated unmarshalling with XStream to access data streams from an arbitrary URL referencing a resource in an intranet or the local host

    XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream before version 1.4.16, there is a vulnerability where the processed stream at unmarshalling time contains type information to recreate the formerly written objects. XStream creat…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-21342.html