Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2021-39149

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-39149 is a critical vulnerability in the XStream library, affecting products like Debian, Fedora Project, NetApp, and Oracle. It allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code by manipulating the input stream during object serialization, bypassing XStream's default blacklist. With a CVSS score of 8.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires low privileges and high attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.4.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xstream:xstream:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0474 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 1,162 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstreamFixed in: 1.4.18
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: xstream-0:1.3.1-16.el7_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHDM 7.12.0Fixed in: xstream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHPAM 7.12.0Fixed in: xstream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat IntegrationFixed in: xstream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Data Grid 8.3.0Fixed in: xstream
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1Fixed in: xstream

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-3ccq-5vw3-2p6xhigh

XStream is vulnerable to an Arbitrary Code Execution attack

Aug 25, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-39149Important

xstream: Arbitrary code execution via unsafe deserialization of com.sun.corba.*

Aug 22, 2021

References

github.com / x-stream/xstream/security/advisories/GHSA-3ccq-5vw3-2p6x
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00017.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22KVR6B5IZP3BGQ3HPWIO2FWWCKT3DHP
Mailing List
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PVPHZA7VW2RRSDCOIPP2W6O5ND254TU7
Mailing List
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QGXIU3YDPG6OGTDHMBLAFN7BPBERXREB
Mailing List
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20210923-0003
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-5004
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
Third Party Advisory
x-stream.github.io / CVE-2021-39149.html
ExploitThird Party Advisory