Use of Non-Canonical URL Paths for Authorization Decisions Affecting org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-util package, versions [12.0.0,12.0.35)[12.1.0,12.1.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGECLIPSEJETTY-18230884
  • published23 Jul 2026
  • disclosed22 Jul 2026
  • creditjweny

Introduced: 22 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-8384  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-647  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-util to version 12.0.35, 12.1.9 or higher.

Overview

org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-util is a Web Container & Clients - supports HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.0, websocket, servlets, and more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Non-Canonical URL Paths for Authorization Decisions due to incorrect handling of ; path-parameter segments in the canonicalization loop. An attacker can bypass path-based security checks or reach protected content by sending a request such as /public;/../admin/secret, which leaves the .. segment unnormalized when the path is matched against constraints like SecurityHandler.PathMapped. When the semicolon segment is followed by / and then . or .., the parser carries forward a stale slash state and returns a non-normalized canonical path. That can let requests intended for a protected prefix such as /admin/* be treated as outside the protected path, resulting in unauthorized access to resources that should require authentication.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1