XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream before version 1.4.16, there is a vulnerability which may allow a remote attacker to load and execute arbitrary code from a remote host only by manipulating the processed input stream. No user is affected, who followed the recommendation to setup XStream's security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types. If you rely on XStream's default blacklist of the Security Framework, you will have to use at least version 1.4.16.
CVE-2021-21347
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 14% (96th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 6.1 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2021-03-22) is not newer than that change (2026-10-07), so it does not.
Also known asEUVD-2021-0699 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-qpfq-ph7r-qv6f (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 75EG Risk 75/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 14%
- EPSS %ILE
- 96th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 14% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
March 23, 2021
Last Modified
October 7, 2026
Advisory Details (12)
Auto-updated Oct 31, 2026[SECURITY] [DSA 5004-1] libxstream-java security update
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5004[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: xstream-1.4.18-2.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QGXIU3YDPG6OGTDHMBLAFN7BPBERXREB/[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: xstream-1.4.18-2.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PVPHZA7VW2RRSDCOIPP2W6O5ND254TU7/[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: xstream-1.4.18-2.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22KVR6B5IZP3BGQ3HPWIO2FWWCKT3DHP/[SECURITY] [DLA 2616-1] libxstream-java security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00002.htmlPony Mail
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9ac71b047767205aa22e3a08cb33f3e0586de6b2fac48b425c6e16b0%40%3Cdev.jmeter.apache.org%3EPony Mail
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8244fd0831db894d5e89911ded9c72196d395a90ae655414d23ed0dd%40%3Cusers.activemq.apache.org%3EXStream is vulnerable to an Arbitrary Code Execution attack · Advisory · x-stream/xstream · GitHub
https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/security/advisories/GHSA-qpfq-ph7r-qv6fVendor Advisories for CVE-2021-21347(5)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2021:5134Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Fuse 7.10.0 release and security update
- RHSA-2021:4918Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Integration Camel-K 1.6 release and security update
- RHSA-2021:4767Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus GA security update
- RHSA-2021:2476Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Decision Manager 7.11.0 security update
- RHSA-2021:2475Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.11.0 security update
Patch Availability(7)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libxstream-java (1.4.15-1ubuntu0.1) @ hirsute | 2026-11-02 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libxstream-java (1.4.8-1ubuntu0.1+esm3) @ xenial | 2026-11-02 | ubuntu |
| redhat | xstream | 2021-12-14 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2021-12-02 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2021-11-23 | redhat |
| redhat | xstream-0:1.3.1-13.el7_9 | 2021-04-26 | redhat |
| maven | com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream @ 1.4.16 (fixes < 1.4.16) | — | ghsa |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libxstream-java | — |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libxstream-java | — |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libxstream-java | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libxstream-java | — |
| — |
Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libxstream-java | 1.4.10-1 ... 1.4.9-2+deb9u1 (6 versions) |
| — |
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream | 0.1 ... 1.4.9 (40 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(4)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 75× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 96 of 230 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 4 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 134 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-02 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 14% · 96th percentile
- 2026-11-02 05:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 05:10 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-02 05:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qpfq-ph7r-qv6f · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.1
- 2026-11-01 08:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qpfq-ph7r-qv6f · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.1
- 2026-11-01 08:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 04:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 04:17 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 14% · 96th percentile
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- 2026-10-30 02:26 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-28 00:40 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-26 23:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-26 23:45 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-25 19:14 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 14% · 96th percentile
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- 2026-10-24 18:09 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-22 16:21 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-17 10:33 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-15 08:42 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-14 04:58 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-07 19:28 UTCEG score recompute▲ 3.70
- 2026-10-07 19:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-07 19:19 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 9.8 · severity → CRITICAL
- 2026-10-07 18:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-07 18:29 UTCVendor advisory
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