Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jetty8 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed13 Apr 2017
Introduced: 13 Apr 2017
CVE-2016-4800 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jetty8 package and not the jetty8 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4800
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90945
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0006/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2016-001.html
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-362
- http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00092.html