CVE-2017-7957

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

29/04/2017

Last modified:

23/05/2025

Description

XStream through 1.4.9, when a certain denyTypes workaround is not used, mishandles attempts to create an instance of the primitive type &#39;void&#39; during unmarshalling, leading to a remote application crash, as demonstrated by an xstream.fromXML("") call.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:fuse:1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_middleware:1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xstream:xstream::::::::		1.4.9 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:fuse:1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_middleware:1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xstream:xstream::::::::		1.4.9 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*

CVE-2017-7957

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools