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.
Remediation
References
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0441.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0519.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1056.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1057.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1058.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1059.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1125.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0371.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0372.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/47832
http://secunia.com/advisories/50084
http://secunia.com/advisories/57716
http://secunia.com/advisories/57719
http://www.osvdb.org/78680
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51766
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785631
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72808
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY/fixforversion/12318708
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY-647
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