Undertow PT: Remote Attacker Can Access Privileged Files via Malformed HTTP
CVE-2024-1459 Published on February 12, 2024
Undertow: directory traversal vulnerability
A path traversal vulnerability was found in Undertow. This issue may allow a remote attacker to append a specially-crafted sequence to an HTTP request for an application deployed to JBoss EAP, which may permit access to privileged or restricted files and directories.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-1459 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and availability.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public.
Weakness Type
Path Traversal: '../filedir'
The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize "../" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.
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