CVE-2014-3490

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

RESTEasy 2.3.1 before 2.3.8.SP2 and 3.x before 3.0.9, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.3.0, does not disable external entities when the resteasy.document.expand.entity.references parameter is set to false, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and have other unspecified impact via unspecified vectors, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0818.

Affected products

Red Hat JBoss EAP: 6.3.0
Red Hat, Inc. resteasy: from 2.3.1 through 2.3.7.2; from 3.0.0 before 3.0.9; 3.0-beta1, 3.0-beta2, 3.0-beta3, 3.0-beta4, 3.0-beta5, 3.0-beta6 (+1) — fixed in 3.0.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat, Inc. resteasy 3.0.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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