CVE-2016-6346
RESTEasy: Abuse of GZIPInterceptor in RESTEasy can lead to denial of service attack
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · September 1, 2016
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
It was found that GZIPInterceptor is enabled when not necessarily required in RESTEasy. An attacker could use this flaw to launch a Denial of Service attack.
Statement
This issue was fixed in EAP 7.1.0, but was not fixed in 7.0.7 On Red Hat Satellite 6.5 this issue is fixed through the candlepin package update (candlepin 2.5.8), which contains a non-vulnerable version of RESTEasy.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 · 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE not specified