CVE-2017-14949: Restlet

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Restlet Framework before 2.3.12 allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via a crafted REST API HTTP request that conducts an XXE attack, because only general external entities (not parameter external entities) are properly considered. This is related to XmlRepresentation, DOMRepresentation, SaxRepresentation, and JacksonRepresentation.

Affected products

• Restlet Restlet: before 2.3.12 (fixed in 2.3.12)

Published 2017-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.