CVE-2011-5245: Red Hat Resteasy

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Resteasy: up to and including 2.3.1; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; …

Published 2012-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.