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CVE-2021-39152

In affected versions this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to request data from internal resources that are not publicly available only by manipulating the processed input stream with a Java runtime version 14 to 8.

HIGH 8.5EPSS 11.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.4%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In affected versions this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to request data from internal resources that are not publicly available only by manipulating the processed input stream with a Java runtime version 14 to 8. 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](https://x-stream.github.io/security.html#framework), you will have to use at least version 1.4.18.

CVSS 3.1
8.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
11.38% probability · 96th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-502, CWE-918
Affected
xstream/xstream · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux · netapp/snapmanager · oracle/business activity monitoring · oracle/commerce guided search · oracle/communications billing and revenue management elastic charging engine · oracle/communications cloud native core automated test suite · oracle/communications cloud native core binding support function · oracle/communications cloud native core policy · oracle/communications unified inventory management · oracle/retail xstore point of service · oracle/utilities framework · oracle/utilities testing accelerator · oracle/webcenter portal
Source
security-advisories@github.com
EPSS trend
0%8%15%3 November 2026: 11.38%3 November 20263 November 2026

EPSS 11.4% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.