Information disclosure in Resteasy

Published: 2012-11-23 | Updated: 2020-08-11

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	1
CVE-ID	CVE-2012-0818
CWE-ID	CWE-200
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	Resteasy Other software / Other software solutions
Vendor	resteasy

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU43307

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [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 - Information exposure

Exploit availability: No

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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Resteasy: 1.0.0 - 2.2.3

CPE2.3

External links

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.