CVE-2016-7050

Publication date 8 June 2017

Last updated 16 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

SerializableProvider in RESTEasy in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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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	Fixed 3.0.6-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

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Notes

ebarretto

The SerializableProvider has been disabled by default in 3.0.17

noam-ns

No fix is available beyond disabling the feature, it was eventually deprecated and abandonned upstream

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
resteasy	Upstream: bb8657c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H