#VU43307 Information disclosure in Resteasy - CVE-2012-0818
Published: November 23, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43307
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0818
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Resteasy
Resteasy
Software vendor:
resteasy
resteasy
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
RESTEasy before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an external entity reference in a DOM document, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
External links
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0441.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0519.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1056.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1057.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1058.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1059.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1125.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0371.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0372.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47818
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47832
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48697
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48954
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50084
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57716
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57719
- http://www.osvdb.org/78679
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51748
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51766
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785631
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72808
- https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY-637