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high 8.1

CVE-2018-1051 json

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-yaml-provider

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-m2fv-3rqm-g7p5 , EUVD-2022-4469

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It was found that the fix for CVE-2016-9606 in versions 3.0.22 and 3.1.2 was incomplete and Yaml unmarshalling in Resteasy is still possible via `Yaml.load()` in YamlProvider.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-yaml-provider 3.0.26.Final, 3.6.0.Final

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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-2018-1051 updated cvss 8.1

resteasy: Unsafe unmarshalling in YamlProvider allows code execution

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 resteasy Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 resteasy Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 resteasy Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 resteasy Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 resteasy Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 resteasy
    +6 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 resteasy Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 resteasy Red Hat Satellite 6 resteasy Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 resteasy Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager resteasy Red Hat Virtualization 4 eap7-resteasy-yaml-provider
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “If the YamlProvider is enabled it's recommended to add authentication, and authorization to the endpoint expecting Yaml content to prevent exploitation of this vulnerability.”
  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 resteasy 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 Enterprise Linux 8 resteasy, resteasy-javadoc Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 resteasy Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 resteasy Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 resteasy
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 millicore
    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

1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

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-yaml-provider
<3.0.26.Final
>=3.1.0, <3.6.0.Final
3.0.26.Final
3.6.0.Final

Affected products

  • Red Hat, Inc. resteasy

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

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