CVE-2014-3490
Incorrect Privilege Assignment in RESTEasy
EPSS 4.6%
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.
How to fix CVE-2014-3490
To remediate CVE-2014-3490, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.3.8.SP2 or later
Is CVE-2014-3490 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 4.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 2.3.1, < 2.3.8.SP2