xwiki/xwiki-platform · Security
XWiki Jetty Package (XJetty) allows accessing any application file through URL
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-53gx-j3p6-2rw9
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-55749
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Impact
In an instance which is using the XWiki Jetty package (XJetty), a context is exposed to statically access any file located in the webapp/ folder.
It allows accessing files which might contains credentials, like http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg, http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.properties or http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml.
Patches
This has been patched in 16.10.11, 17.4.4, 17.7.0.
Workarounds
The workaround is to modify the start_xwiki.sh script following https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/8b68d8a70b43f25391b3ee48477d7eb71b95cf4b...99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10.
For more information
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- Open an issue in Jira XWiki.org
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Attribution
Vulnerability reported by Joseph Huber.
CWEs
- CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-53gx-j3p6-2rw9 ↗
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/42fb063749dd88cc78196f72d7318b7179285ebd ↗
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10 ↗
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/8b68d8a70b43f25391b3ee48477d7eb71b95cf4b...99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10 ↗
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23438 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55749 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-53gx-j3p6-2rw9 ↗