CVE-2017-9793: DoS attack via crafted XML payload processed by REST Plugin using XStream library

September 20, 2017 (updated August 12, 2019)

The REST Plugin in this package is using an outdated XStream library which is vulnerable and allow perform a DoS attack using malicious request with specially crafted XML payload.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9793
struts.apache.org/docs/s2-051.html

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