Information Exposure Affecting org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-util package, versions [9.3.0.M0,9.3.9.v20160517)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.87% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGECLIPSEJETTY-31117
  • published31 May 2016
  • disclosed31 May 2016
  • creditSimon Zuckerbraun

Introduced: 31 May 2016

CVE-2016-4800  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-util Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.

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