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SCA: security update for org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-client (GHSA-qjpq-5pq3-43rr)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418179

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - RESTEasy 2.3.1 before 2.3.8.SP2 and 3.x before 3.0.9, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
 Platform (EAP) 6.3.0, does not disable external entities when the
 resteasy.document.expand.entity.references parameter is set to false, which allows remote attackers to
 read arbitrary files and have other unspecified impact via unspecified vectors, related to an XML External
 Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0818.
 (CVE-2014-3490)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qjpq-5pq3-43rr

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418179

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3490

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3490

BID: 69058

cwe: CWE-266