PT-2013-4909 · Nodstrum · Restlet

Dinis Cruz · Published 2013-10-10 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2013-4221

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Restlet versions prior to 2.1.4

Description The default configuration of the ObjectRepresentation class deserializes objects from untrusted sources using the Java XMLDecoder, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via crafted XML.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.1.4, update to version 2.1.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the deserialization of objects from untrusted sources using the Java XMLDecoder until a patch is available.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-91

CWE-16

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4221

GHSA-92J2-5R7P-6HJW

Affected Products

Restlet

References · 15

• https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/issues/774 · Patch
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1410.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4221 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4221 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1862.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4221 · Vendor Advisory
• http://restlet.org/learn/2.1/changes · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4221 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-92j2-5r7p-6hjw · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/commit/b85c2ef182c69c5e2e21df008ccb249ccf80c7b · Note
• https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java · Note
• https://github.com/o2platform/DefCon_RESTing · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4221 · Note
• http://blog.diniscruz.com/2013/08/using-xmldecoder-to-execute-server-side.html · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995275 · Note