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high 7.5

CVE-2016-3674 json

XML External Entity Injection in XStream

published 2016-05-17 10 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-rgh3-987h-wpmw , EUVD-2020-0513

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.2%
EPSS 8.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream 1.4.9
  • xstream xstream 1.4.9
  • libxstream-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.4.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3674

  • libxstream-java Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.4.7-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
  • libxstream-java Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.4.8-1ubuntu0.1+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3674

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • xstream openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.4.18-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10592-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-3674 updated cvss 5.3

XStream: enabled processing of external entities

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 xstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 xstream, xstream-javadoc Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 jasperreports-server-pro Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 xstream
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 xstream
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 xstream Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 xstream Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 xstream Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 xstream
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 xstream
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 xstream Red Hat Satellite 6 xstream Red Hat Software Collections maven30-xstream, maven30-xstream-javadoc, maven30-xstream-benchmark
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2822
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2823

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

8.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream
<1.4.9
1.4.9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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