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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2014· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2014-3490

CVE-2014-3490

Description

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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-clientMaven
>= 2.3.1, < 2.3.8.SP22.3.8.SP2
org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-clientMaven
>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.9.Final3.0.9.Final

Affected products

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  • Red Hat/Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
    cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Red Hat/Resteasy8 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 7 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=2.3.1,<=2.3.7.2
    • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:3.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:3.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:3.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:3.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:3.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:3.0:beta6:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:3.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • ghsa-coords
    pkg:maven/org.jboss.resteasy/resteasy-client
    Range: >= 2.3.1, < 2.3.8.SP2

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