Denial of service in JBoss resteasy

HIGH 7.5CVE-2016-6346 · GHSA-wxvr-vqfp-9cqw · Published 07/09/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-6346 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-jaxrs.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.6%, higher than 92.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.0.20.Final or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-jaxrs Maven	`< 3.0.20.Final`	`3.0.20.Final`

RESTEasy enables GZIPInterceptor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

NVD description

RESTEasy enables GZIPInterceptor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

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