CVE-2021-21348: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

March 23, 2021 (updated November 7, 2023)

XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream, there is a vulnerability which may allow a remote attacker to occupy a thread that consumes maximum CPU time and will never return.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21348

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