CVE-2016-4800
highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.064 · 94 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
weaknesses
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affected products (11)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-872g-2h8h-362qJetty contains an alias issue that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution due to specially crafted request2018-10-19ghsa · osvUS
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.
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references (20)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00092.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2016-001.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90945cnnvd
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-362cnnvd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0006/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2020.4254/cnnvd
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlcnnvd
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90945cnnvd
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