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high 8.1

CVE-2016-9606 json

JBoss RESTEasy vulnerable to Improper Input Validation

published 2018-03-09 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-hgjr-xwj3-jfvw , EUVD-2022-4144

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.0%
EPSS 6.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

JBoss RESTEasy before version 3.1.2 could be forced into parsing a request with YamlProvider, resulting in unmarshalling of potentially untrusted data which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with RESTEasy application permissions.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-bom 3.1.2.Final
  • resteasy3.0 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.0.26-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9606

  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.6-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6
  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.6-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.6-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6
  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.6-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-wss4j jboss enterprise application platform 7 2.1.8-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-wildfly jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.6-4.GA_redhat_2.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-resteasy jboss enterprise application platform 7 3.0.19-5.SP3_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-undertow jboss enterprise application platform 7 1.3.28-4.Final_redhat_4.1.ep7.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:1412RHSA-2017:1411RHSA-2017:1410RHSA-2017:1260RHSA-2017:1253RHSA-2017:1254

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-9606 updated cvss 8.1

Resteasy: Yaml unmarshalling vulnerable to RCE

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 resteasy Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 resteasy
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.”
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2017:1675
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 7.1
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2018:2909
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2017:1676
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 7.1
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2018:2913
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.0
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2017:1409
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2017:1255
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 5 Server hornetq 2.3.25-20.SP18_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, jbossweb 7.5.22-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, picketbox 4.1.5-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, resteasy 2.3.19-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, httpserver 1.0.8-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, jboss-as-ee 7.5.15-1.Final_redhat_3.1.ep6.el5, +82 more
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2017:1256
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  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 Server hornetq 2.3.25-20.SP18_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, jbossweb 7.5.22-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, picketbox 4.1.5-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, resteasy 2.3.19-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, httpserver 1.0.8-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, jboss-as-ee 7.5.15-1.Final_redhat_3.1.ep6.el6, +84 more
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2017:1254
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7 Server hornetq 2.3.25-20.SP18_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, jbossweb 7.5.22-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, picketbox 4.1.5-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, resteasy 2.3.19-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, httpserver 1.0.8-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, jboss-as-ee 7.5.15-1.Final_redhat_3.1.ep6.el7, +82 more
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2017:1253
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 Server eap7-wss4j 2.1.8-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-wildfly 7.0.6-4.GA_redhat_2.1.ep7.el6, eap7-apache-cxf 3.1.10-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-wss4j-policy 2.1.8-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-resteasy 3.0.19-5.SP3_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-apache-cxf-rt 3.1.10-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, +99 more
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2017:1410
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-wss4j 2.1.8-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-wildfly 7.0.6-4.GA_redhat_2.1.ep7.el7, eap7-apache-cxf 3.1.10-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-wss4j-policy 2.1.8-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-resteasy 3.0.19-5.SP3_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-apache-cxf-rt 3.1.10-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, +99 more
    fixed: vendor fix “Add authentication and authorization to any Resteasy endpoint which doesn't define a mime type, or defines a multipart mime type.” RHSA-2017:1412
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 resteasy-base, resteasy-base-tjws, resteasy-base-jaxrs, resteasy-base-client, resteasy-base-javadoc, resteasy-base-jaxrs-all, +7 more Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 resteasy Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 resteasy Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 resteasy Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 millicore Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 resteasy
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-bom
<3.1.2.Final
3.1.2.Final

Affected products

  • Red Hat, Inc. RESTEasy

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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