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CVE-2014-3490

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

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.04646
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Affected Products & Versions

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redhat resteasy>= 2.3.1 and <= 2.3.7.2
redhat resteasy>= 3.0.0 and < 3.0.9
redhat resteasyall versions

Affected Packages

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Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Maven org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-client HIGH fixed in 2.3.8.SP2

Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD19 Aug 2014 · 06:55 PM

Vendor Advisories

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rhsaRHSA-2015:0235Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2015:0234Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2015:0765Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2015:0720Moderate
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