Bug 1130383 – CVE-2014-3599 HornetQ REST: XXE due to insecure configuration of RestEasy

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Bug 1130383 - (CVE-2014-3599) CVE-2014-3599 HornetQ REST: XXE due to insecure configuration of RestEasy

Summary:	CVE-2014-3599 HornetQ REST: XXE due to insecure configuration of RestEasy

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-3599

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	1135934
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Reported:	2014-08-15 01:35 EDT by Arun Babu Neelicattu
Modified:	2015-02-15 16:55 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	hornetq-rest 2.5.0.Beta1
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	It was discovered that HornetQ REST did not set the resteasy.document.expand.entity.references context parameter to false by default. A HornetQ REST application, which does not explicitly set the required context parameter to false, may be vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks. A remote attacker able to send XML requests to a HornetQ REST endpoint could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks.
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Last Closed:	2014-12-06 00:00:29 EST
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Description Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-08-15 01:35:45 EDT

IssueDescription:

It was discovered that HornetQ REST did not set the resteasy.document.expand.entity.references context parameter to false by default. A HornetQ REST application, which does not explicitly set the required context parameter to false, may be vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks. A remote attacker able to send XML requests to a HornetQ REST endpoint could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks.

Comment 1 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-08-15 01:38:08 EDT

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Georgi Geshev of MWR Labs for reporting this issue.

Comment 2 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-08-15 01:40:46 EDT

Mitigation:

When using HornetQ REST in an application, add the following snippet to its web.xml file to disable entity expansion in RESTEasy as used by HornetQ REST endpoints:

<context-param>
        <param-name>resteasy.document.expand.entity.references</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>

Note that this <context-param> setting has precedence over <init-param>, and will override a contrary setting in an <init-param> element.

Comment 3 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-08-15 04:53:48 EDT

Upstream Issue:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HORNETQ-1390

Comment 4 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-08-15 05:22:55 EDT

Statement:

Not Vulnerable. HornetQ REST is not provided by any Red Hat product.

Comment 5 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-29 09:25:21 EDT

Upstream Fix:

https://github.com/hornetq/hornetq/commit/b3a63576371828d5f8e64ba7ccbcecb1da8111d2

Comment 6 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-12-05 23:59:55 EST

Victims Record:

https://github.com/victims/victims-cve-db/blob/master/database/java/2014/3599.yaml

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