CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14949
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-611
Description
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 configurations
• restlet restlet (< 2.3.12)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness
References
- https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/wiki/XEE-security-enhancements Third Party Advisory
- https://lgtm.com/blog/restlet_CVE-2017-14949 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/wiki/XEE-security-enhancements Third Party Advisory
- https://lgtm.com/blog/restlet_CVE-2017-14949 Exploit, Third Party Advisory