CVE-2013-4271

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2013-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-502

Description

The default configuration of the ObjectRepresentation class in Restlet before 2.1.4 deserializes objects from untrusted sources, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via a serialized object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4221.

Affected products

Restlet: through 2.1.3; 2.1-milestone1, 2.1-milestone2, 2.1-milestone3, 2.1-milestone4, 2.1-milestone5, 2.1-milestone6 (+9)

References

http://restlet.org/learn/2.1/changes
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1410.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1862.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999735
https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/issues/778
http://restlet.org/learn/2.1/changes
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1410.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1862.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999735
https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/issues/778

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