CVE-2017-7492

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-05-08
Bugzilla:
1448753: REJECTED CVE-2017-7492 SourceProvider in RestEasy-jaxrs is vulnerable to XXE

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2017-7503. Reason: This candidate is a reservation duplicate of CVE-2017-7503. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2017-7503 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent accidental usage.

Find out more about CVE-2017-7492 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

After further analysis of this issue, it was determined that the flaw was in the XML Frameworks implementation on EAP 7, not in RESTEasy.

If you use a javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory to process a javax.xml.transform.Source instance please be aware of this outstanding issue with that functionality on EAP 7.0.x:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451960

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 7.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 REST Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 REST Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Katerina Novotna (Red Hat).

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