CVE-2021-28163

Published: Apr 1, 2021Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-200

2.7LOW

NVD MITRE

Description

In Eclipse Jetty 9.4.32 to 9.4.38, 10.0.0.beta2 to 10.0.1, and 11.0.0.beta2 to 11.0.1, if a user uses a webapps directory that is a symlink, the contents of the webapps directory is deployed as a static webapp, inadvertently serving the webapps themselves and anything else that might be in that directory.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:HPrivileges Required

High

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:LConfidentiality

Low

I:NIntegrity

None

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-200 CWE-59

Affected Products

Oracle Corp.

commercial·USaka oracle

Autovue for Agile Product Lifecycle ManagementOn-premDesktop App

Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring

banking apisOn-premWeb App

Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring

banking digital experienceOn-premWeb App

Enterprise Software / erp

communications element managerOn-prem

Communications

communications services gatekeeperOn-premWeb App

Databases / db-tooling

communications session report managerOn-prem

Communications

communications session route managerOn-prem

Communications / messaging-chat

siebel core - automationOn-premWeb App

Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring

netapp

commercial·US

cloud manager

Hardware Firmware

e-series performance analyzer

Hardware Firmware

e-series santricity os controller

Hardware Firmware

e-series santricity web services

Hardware Firmware

element plug-in for vcenter server

Hardware Firmware

santricity cloud connector

oss-project·USaka apache http server, apache httpd

igniteWeb App

Databases / cache-message-queue

solrOn-premWeb App

Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core

The Eclipse Foundation

oss-projectaka eclipse jetty, eclipse openj9, eclipse mosquitto

Eclipse JettyOn-premWeb App

Networking Infrastructure / load-balancer-proxy

eclipse

oss-project·BEaka eclipse-foundation

jettyOn-premWeb App

Networking Infrastructure / load-balancer-proxy

fedoraproject

oss-project·USaka fedora project

fedoraOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Collection

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References

https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-j6qj-j888-vvgq

github.com

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r780c3c210a05c5bf7b4671303f46afc3fe56758e92864e1a5f0590d0%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5b3693da7ecb8a75c0e930b4ca26a5f97aa0207d9dae4aa8cc65fe6b%40%3Cissues.ignite.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org

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