CVE-2016-3674: XML External Entity Injection in XStream

June 30, 2020 (updated May 23, 2025)

Multiple XML external entity (XXE) vulnerabilities in the (1) Dom4JDriver, (2) DomDriver, (3) JDomDriver, (4) JDom2Driver, (5) SjsxpDriver, (6) StandardStaxDriver, and (7) WstxDriver drivers in XStream before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML document.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-rgh3-987h-wpmw
github.com/x-stream/xstream
github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/25
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3674
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMTHOUGHTWORKSXSTREAM-30385

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