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USN-7630-1: RESTEasy vulnerabilities

It was discovered that RESTEasy made insufficient use of random values in asynchronous jobs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to steal user data. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6345) It was discovered that RESTEasy enabled a vulnerable GZIP decompression module by default. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6346) It was discovered that RESTEasy improperly made use of unsanitized data while handling certain errors. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6347) It was discovered that RESTEasy enabled a vulnerable JSON manipulation module by default. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6348) It was discovered that RESTEasy enabled a vulnerable deserialization module by default. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-7050) Nikos Papadopoulos discovered that RESTEasy improperly handled URL encoding when certain errors occur. An attacker could possibly use this issue to modify the app's behavior for other users throughout the network. This issue did not affect resteasy3.0 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10, and Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2020-10688) Mirko Selber discovered that RESTEasy improperly validated user input during HTTP response construction. An attacker could possibly use this issue to to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue did not affect resteasy3.0 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10, and Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2020-1695) It was discovered that RESTEasy improperly handled receiving the WebApplicationException during a client call. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain potentially sensitive server information. (CVE-2020-25633) It was discovered that RESTEasy improperly populated exception responses with endpoint class and method names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain potentially sensitive server information. (CVE-2021-20289) It was discovered that RESTEasy used improper permissions when creating temporary files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to get access to sensitive data. (CVE-2023-0482) It was discovered that RESTEasy improperly handled certain HTTP requests containing ASCII control characters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-9622)

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