vert-x3/vertx-web · Security
Eclipse Vert.x does not properly neutralize '' (forward slashes) sequences that can resolve to an external location
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-h39x-m55c-v55h
- CVE ID
- CVE-2018-12542
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In version from 3.0.0 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the StaticHandler uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize '' (forward slashes) sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory when running on Windows Operating Systems.
CWEs
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12542 ↗
- https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-web/issues/1025 ↗
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539171 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h39x-m55c-v55h ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E ↗
- https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-web/commit/57a65dce6f4c5aa5e3ce7288685e7f3447eb8f3b ↗