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CVE-2016-4800 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00092.html	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0006/	CVE
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html	CVE
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2016-001.html	CVE	MitigationPatchThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90945	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-362	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00092.html	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0006/	[email protected]
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html	[email protected]
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2016-001.html	[email protected]	MitigationPatchThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90945	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-362	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

see all 12 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-284	Improper Access Control	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
eclipse jetty	9.3.0 9.3.0 m0 9.3.0 m1 9.3.0 maintenance2 9.3.0 rc0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:m0:::::: cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:m1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:maintenance2:::::: cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:rc0:::::: cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:rc1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.4:rc0:::::: cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.4:rc1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.7:rc0:::::: cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.7:rc1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.8:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.8:rc0:::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
microsoft windows	All versions
CPE cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

9 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 13, 2026	CVE Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 20, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 17, 2019	CPE Deprecation Remap	[email protected]
Mar 8, 2019	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 25, 2017	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Apr 15, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]