CVE-2016-4800 (GCVE-0-2016-4800)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:39
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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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2016-05-30 00:00
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