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Directory Traversal Affecting org.glassfish:jakarta.faces package, versions [,2.3.14)

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • User Interaction

    Required

  • Confidentiality

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JAVA-ORGGLASSFISH-552158

  • published

    25 Feb 2020

  • disclosed

    20 Feb 2020

  • credit

    An Trinh

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Introduced: 20 Feb 2020

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How to fix?

Upgrade org.glassfish:jakarta.faces to version 2.3.14 or higher.

Overview

org.glassfish:jakarta.faces is a Oracle's implementation of the JavaServer Faces specification.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the loc parameter or the con parameter. This issue is due to incomplete fix of CVE-2018-14371.

##Details Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package