CVE-2020-25633 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information in RESTEasy client

What is CVE-2020-25633?

CVE-2020-25633 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat resteasy-client, published on 18 Sep 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in RESTEasy client in all versions of RESTEasy up to 4.5.6.Final. It may allow client users to obtain the server's potentially sensitive information when the server got WebApplicationException from the RESTEasy client call. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

Weakness: CWE-209

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-25633?

8 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-client and org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-client-microprofile. It affects 2 products.

Products include Quarkus Quarkus, Redhat Resteasy.

How do I fix CVE-2020-25633?

Upgrade org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-client to a fixed version for your release line: 3.14.0.Final or 4.5.7.Final.

Is CVE-2020-25633 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-25633 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat resteasy-client

• CVE-2022-4116 Code injection in quarkus dev ui config editor Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-2466 Quarkus does not terminate HTTP requests header context Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-12225 Io.quarkus:quarkus-security-webauthn: quarkus webauthn unexpected authentication bypass Critical 9.1
• CVE-2026-39852 Quarkus authorization bypass via semicolon path normalization inconsistency High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0981 Privilege escalation in quarkus High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25633, GHSA-hr32-mgpm-qf2f, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25633.