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CVE-2014-3490

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5
7.5CVSS HIGH

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

JBoss

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information