{"id":"CVE-2024-47072","aliases":["GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2024-47072","summary":"XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream","details":"### Impact\nThe vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to terminate the application with a stack overflow error resulting in a denial of service only by manipulating the processed input stream when XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver.\n\n### Patches\nXStream 1.4.21 detects the manipulation in the binary input stream causing the the stack overflow and raises an InputManipulationException instead.\n\n### Workarounds\nThe only solution is to catch the StackOverflowError in the client code calling XStream if XStream is configured to use the BinaryStreamDriver.\n\n### References\nSee full information about the nature of the vulnerability and the steps to reproduce it in XStream's documentation for [CVE-2024-47072](https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2024-47072.html).\n\n### Credits\nAlexis Challande of Trail Of Bits found and reported the issue to XStream and provided the required information to reproduce it.","published":"2024-11-07T23:38:52.978Z","modified":"2026-08-12T15:16:05.177741Z","cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream","fixedVersion":"1.4.21"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/bb838ce2269cac47433e31c77b2b236466e9f266","label":"x-stream/xstream@bb838ce"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00023.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2024-47072.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/47xxx/CVE-2024-47072.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/security/advisories/GHSA-hfq9-hggm-c56q"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47072"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/bb838ce2269cac47433e31c77b2b236466e9f266"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/commit/fdd9f7d3de0d7ccf2f9979bcd09fbf3e6a0c881a"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/x-stream/xstream"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-08-12T15:16:05.177741Z"}}