restlet/restlet-framework-java · Security
Restlet Framework allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via a crafted REST API HTTP request
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-cvj4-g3gx-8vqq
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-14949
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
Restlet Framework before 2.3.12 allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via a crafted REST API HTTP request that conducts an XXE attack, because only general external entities (not parameter external entities) are properly considered. This is related to XmlRepresentation, DOMRepresentation, SaxRepresentation, and JacksonRepresentation.
CWEs
- CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14949 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cvj4-g3gx-8vqq ↗
- https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/wiki/XEE-security-enhancements ↗
- https://lgtm.com/blog/restlet_CVE-2017-14949 ↗
- https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/commit/fe75aff3af23b879b984db7a2b6824cee0ef0fc5 ↗