XML External Entity (XXE) Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package resteasy.src (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published29 Jan 2026
- disclosed18 Nov 2014
Introduced: 18 Nov 2014
CVE-2014-7839 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream resteasy.src package and not the resteasy.src package as distributed by RHEL.
DocumentProvider in RESTEasy 2.3.7 and 3.0.9 does not configure the (1) external-general-entities or (2) external-parameter-entities features, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks via unspecified vectors.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165328
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7839
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0773.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0850.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0851.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62580
- https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY-1130