Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jetty9  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-JETTY9-602252
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed13 Apr 2017

Introduced: 13 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-4800  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jetty9 package and not the jetty9 package as distributed by Debian.

The path normalization mechanism in PathResource class in Eclipse Jetty 9.3.x before 9.3.9 on Windows allows remote attackers to bypass protected resource restrictions and other security constraints via a URL with certain escaped characters, related to backslashes.