Resteasy
CVE-2016-6345
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.08%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could access sensitive data that should not be disclosed by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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RESTEasy allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging "insufficient use of random values" in async jobs. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This Exposure of Sensitive Information vulnerability could allow attackers to access sensitive data that should not be disclosed.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Minimize information in error messages, implement proper access controls, encrypt sensitive data at rest and in transit.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in maven
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Exposure of Sensitive Information (CWE-200), which allows attackers to access sensitive data that should not be disclosed. RESTEasy allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging "insufficient use of random values" in async jobs. Affected products include: Redhat Resteasy.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
RESTEasy allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging "insufficient use of random values" in async jobs.
Blast Radius
ecosystem impact- 30 maven packages depend on org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-client (22 direct, 8 indirect)
Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 3.1.0.Beta1.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
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
It was found that the fix for CVE-2016-9606 in versions 3.0.22 and 3.1.2 was incomplete and Yaml unmarshalling in Restea
RESTEasy enables GZIPInterceptor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors. Ra
A flaw was found in all resteasy 3.x.x versions prior to 3.12.0.Final and all resteasy 4.x.x versions prior to 4.6.0.Fin
Cross-origin data exposure in RESTEasy's CorsFilter (CVSS 7.4) occurs when a deployment is configured with allowedOrigin
DocumentProvider in RESTEasy 2.3.7 and 3.0.9 does not configure the (1) external-general-entities or (2) external-parame
JacksonJsonpInterceptor in RESTEasy might allow remote attackers to conduct a cross-site script inclusion (XSSI) attack.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the default exception handler in RESTEasy allows remote attackers to inject
A reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw was found in RESTEasy in all versions of RESTEasy up to 4.6.0.Final, where i
In RESTEasy the insecure File.createTempFile() is used in the DataSourceProvider, FileProvider and Mime4JWorkaround clas
A flaw was found in RESTEasy in all versions of RESTEasy up to 4.6.0.Final. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulne
A flaw was found in RESTEasy client in all versions of RESTEasy up to 4.5.6.Final. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), thi
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