CVE-2016-4800
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Improper access control
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)6%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00092.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00092.htmlPatch
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2016-001.htmlPatch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90945Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-362Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0006/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html