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Red Hat JBossEAP: Path Traversal (CVE-2018-1048)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Path Traversal (CVE-2018-1048)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/15/2018
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

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.. It was found that the AJP connector in undertow does not use the ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH option and thus allows the slash and anti-slash characters encoded in a URL. This may lead to path traversal and result in the information disclosure of arbitrary local files.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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