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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2016-4800 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-java-common-jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | jetty | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | jetty-eclipse | Not affected |
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