GHSA-29qj-rvv6-qrmv · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Cross-site scripting in RESTEasy
A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in RESTEasy in versions before 3.11.1.Final and before 4.5.3.Final, where it did not properly handle URL encoding when the RESTEASY003870 exception occurs. An attacker could use this flaw to launch a reflected XSS attack.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2020-10688 is rated High Exploit Risk (64.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.39%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.05% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.34% | 1.39% | +1.05% |
| 2 | 2026-04-26 | 0.71% | 0.34% | -0.37% |
| 3 | 2026-04-22 | — | 0.71% | — |
Full EPSS history (17 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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2.8 | 2.7 | [email protected] |
| 4.3 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.6 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-29qj-rvv6-qrmv · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Cross-site scripting in RESTEasy
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2020-10688 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (resteasy, resteasy3.0), 6 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 4, open 2. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10688 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10688 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2020-10688 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (resteasy, resteasy3.0), 34 status rows across 17 suites (bionic, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 14, released 11, DNE 4, not-affected 4, needed 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-10688 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | fuse | 1.0 | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:fuse:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | jboss_enterprise_application_platform | — | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:-:*:*:*:text-only:*:*:* |
| redhat | openshift_application_runtimes | — | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_application_runtimes:-:*:*:*:text-only:*:*:* |
| redhat | resteasy | < 3.11.1 | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | resteasy | >= 4.5.0, < 4.5.3 | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:resteasy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | jboss_enterprise_application_platform | 7.3 | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | jboss_enterprise_application_platform | 7.4 | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1814974 | Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/7248 | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
| https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RESTEASY-2519 | Issue Tracking Permissions Required Vendor Advisory |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210706-0008/ | Third Party Advisory |