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CVE-2011-5245: redhat resteasy

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesGHSA-g4jg-gpwv-p7wv
Published 23-11-2012Last modified 07-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-5245 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in redhat resteasy. EPSS estimates a 3.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3

Timeline

  1. 23-11-2012
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

88%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.21% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Org.jboss.resteasy1 product
  • resteasy-jaxb-provider< 2.3.2
Redhat1 product
  • resteasy≤ 2.3.1 | 1.0.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.1.0 | 2.2.0 | 2.2.1 | 2.2.2 | 2.2.3 | 2.3.0

2 vendors · 2 products

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