Vulnerabilities / CVE-2013-7285

critical

CVE-2013-7285

XStream: remote code execution due to insecure XML deserialization

Published Modified CWE 78
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (low).

Description

Xstream API versions up to 1.4.6 and version 1.4.10, if the security framework has not been initialized, may allow a remote attacker to run arbitrary shell commands by manipulating the processed input stream when unmarshaling XML or any supported format. e.g. JSON.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavencom.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream1.4.7, 1.4.11
debian 11libxstream-java1.4.7-1
debian 12libxstream-java1.4.7-1
debian 13libxstream-java1.4.7-1
debian 14libxstream-java1.4.7-1
echolibxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 14.04libxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMlibxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 16.04libxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMlibxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 18.04libxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMlibxstream-java1.4.7-1
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SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavencom.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream1.4.7, 1.4.11
debian 11libxstream-java1.4.7-1
debian 12libxstream-java1.4.7-1
debian 13libxstream-java1.4.7-1
debian 14libxstream-java1.4.7-1
echolibxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 14.04libxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMlibxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 16.04libxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMlibxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 18.04libxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMlibxstream-java1.4.7-1
ubuntu 18.10libxstream-java1.4.7-1

References

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