CVE-2016-9606

Publication date 9 March 2018

Last updated 16 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
resteasy	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored see notes and CVE-2018-1051
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

in some places, incorrectly referred to as CVE-2016-9571 due to a double assignment

msalvatore

Can be mitigated by adding authentiation and authorization to any endpoint expecting Yaml content or disabling YamlProvider.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
resteasy	Upstream: bccadff Upstream: 26e2340

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H