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Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Jboss EAP Undertow

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

maven org.jboss.eap:wildfly-undertow (Maven)

Affected versions

= 7.1.0.GA

Patched versions

7.1.1.GA

Description

It was found that the AJP connector in undertow, as shipped in Jboss EAP 7.1.0.GA, does not use the ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH option and thus allow the the slash / anti-slash characters encoded in the url which may lead to path traversal and result in the information disclosure of arbitrary local files.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 24, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jun 30, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1048

GHSA ID

GHSA-prfw-3qx6-g9xr

Source code

No known source code
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