CVE-2014-3490

Published Aug 19, 2014

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.5
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Evaluator

Comment
<a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/611.html" rel="nofollow">CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')</a>
Impact
-
Solution
-

Configurations