CVE-2016-9606

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

JBoss RESTEasy before version 3.1.2 could be forced into parsing a request with YamlProvider, resulting in unmarshalling of potentially untrusted data which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with RESTEasy application permissions.

Affected products

Red Hat, Inc. resteasy: through 3.1.1

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1255.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1409.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94940
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038524
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1253
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1254
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1256
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1260
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1410
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1411
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1412
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1675

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