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A remote attacker could use this to delete arbitrary\nknown files on the host as long as the executing process had sufficient\nrights only by manipulating the processed input stream. (CVE-2020-26259)\n\nIt was discovered that XStream was vulnerable to denial of service,\narbitrary code execution, arbitrary file deletion and server-side forgery\nattacks. A remote attacker could cause any of those issues by\nmanipulating the processed input stream. 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