RESTEasy before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an external entity reference in a DOM document, aka an XML externa

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• redhat resteasyup to 2.3.0 inclusive
• redhat resteasy1.0.0
• redhat resteasy1.0.1
• redhat resteasy1.0.2
• redhat resteasy1.1
• redhat resteasy1.2
• redhat resteasy2.0.0
• redhat resteasy2.0.1
• redhat resteasy2.1.0
• redhat resteasy2.2.0
• redhat resteasy2.2.1
• redhat resteasy2.2.2
• redhat resteasy2.2.3

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2016-9606JBoss RESTEasy before version 3.1.2 could be forced into parsing a request with YamlProvider, resulting in unmarshalling of potentially untr
  34Monitor
• CVE-2018-1051It was found that the fix for CVE-2016-9606 in versions 3.0.22 and 3.1.2 was incomplete and Yaml unmarshalling in Resteasy is still possible
  32Monitor
• CVE-2016-6346RESTEasy enables GZIPInterceptor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.
  32Monitor
• CVE-2020-1695A flaw was found in all resteasy 3.x.x versions prior to 3.12.0.Final and all resteasy 4.x.x versions prior to 4.6.0.Final, where an imprope
  31Monitor
• CVE-2016-6345RESTEasy allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging "insufficient use of random values" in async jobs.
  27Monitor
• CVE-2014-7839DocumentProvider in RESTEasy 2.3.7 and 3.0.9 does not configure the (1) external-general-entities or (2) external-parameter-entities feature
  26Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.