Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-jaxb-provider  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGJBOSSRESTEASY-31198
  • published9 Jan 2014
  • disclosed23 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Nov 2012

CVE-2011-5245  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-jaxb-provider The readFrom function in providers.jaxb.JAXBXmlTypeProvider in RESTEasy before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an external entity reference in a Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) input, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2012-0818.

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