rhsa-2012_1057
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2012-07-05 19:20
Modified
2024-11-05 17:48
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: resteasy security update

Notes

Topic
An update for JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.2 that fixes one security issue is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.
Details
RESTEasy provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful web services and RESTful Java applications. It was found that RESTEasy was vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks. If a remote attacker submitted a request containing an external XML entity to a RESTEasy endpoint, the entity would be resolved, allowing the attacker to read files accessible to the user running the application server. This flaw affected DOM (Document Object Model) Document and JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding) input. (CVE-2012-0818) Note: The fix for CVE-2012-0818 is not enabled by default. This update adds a new configuration option to disable entity expansion in RESTEasy. If applications on your server expose RESTEasy XML endpoints, a resteasy.document.expand.entity.references configuration snippet must be added to their web.xml file to disable entity expansion in RESTEasy. Refer to Red Hat Bugzilla bug 785631 for details. Warning: Before applying this update, back up your JBoss Enterprise Web Platform's "jboss-as-web/server/[PROFILE]/deploy/" directory and any other customized configuration files. All users of JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.2 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to install this update.
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