National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-5245
Original release date:11/23/2012
Last revised:11/29/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY-647
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY/fixforversion/12318708
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785631
External Source: XF
Name: resteasy-xml-info-disclosure(72808)
External Source: BID
Name: 51766
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 78680
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 50084
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 47832
Type: Advisory
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:1125
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:1059
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:1058
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:1057
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:1056
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:0519
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:0441
Technical Details
- Information Leak / Disclosure (CWE-200)