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Incorrect Privilege Assignment in RESTEasy

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

maven org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-client (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.3.1, <= 2.3.8.SP1
>= 3.0.0, <= 3.0.8.Final

Patched versions

2.3.8.SP2
3.0.9.Final

Description

RESTEasy 2.3.1 before 2.3.8.SP2 and 3.x before 3.0.9, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.3.0, does not disable external entities when the resteasy.document.expand.entity.references parameter is set to false, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and have other unspecified impact via unspecified vectors, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0818.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 19, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Jul 7, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.933%
(83rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-3490

GHSA ID

GHSA-qjpq-5pq3-43rr

Source code

No known source code
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