CVE-2013-7285

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 84.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-05-15 · updated 2026-10-08
Weakness: CWE-78

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 products

Apache ActiveMQ: 5.15.8
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Studio: 3.2.0
x-stream xstream: through 1.4.6; 1.4.10

References

http://blog.diniscruz.com/2013/12/xstream-remote-code-execution-exploit.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/69
http://web.archive.org/web/20140204133306/http://blog.diniscruz.com/2013/12/xstream-remote-code-execution-exploit.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6d3d34adcf3dfc48e36342aa1f18ce3c20bb8e4c458a97508d5bfed1%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/dcf8599b80e43a6b60482607adb76c64672772dc2d9209ae2170f369%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://www.mail-archive.com/user%40xstream.codehaus.org/msg00604.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/user%40xstream.codehaus.org/msg00607.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2013-7285.html
http://blog.diniscruz.com/2013/12/xstream-remote-code-execution-exploit.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/69
http://web.archive.org/web/20140204133306/http://blog.diniscruz.com/2013/12/xstream-remote-code-execution-exploit.html

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