CVE-2011-5245

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

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.

Affected products

Red Hat, Inc. resteasy: through 2.3.1; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0.0 (+7)

References

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/47832
http://secunia.com/advisories/50084
http://secunia.com/advisories/57716

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