Information disclosure in Red Hat Resteasy

CVE-2011-5245

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.032 (87.7th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2011-5245: held from 0.032 to 0.032.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.032 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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