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jetty: error path information disclosure

Published Apr 22, 2019

Description

In Eclipse Jetty version 7.x, 8.x, 9.2.27 and older, 9.3.26 and older, and 9.4.16 and older, the server running on any OS and Jetty version combination will reveal the configured fully qualified directory base resource location on the output of the 404 error for not finding a Context that matches the requested path. The default server behavior on jetty-distribution and jetty-home will include at the end of the Handler tree a DefaultHandler, which is responsible for reporting this 404 error, it presents the various configured contexts as HTML for users to click through to. This produced HTML includes output that contains the configured fully qualified directory base resource location for each context.

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Red Hat statement

This issue affects the versions of jetty which is embedded in the nutch package as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 5. The jetty server is not exposed, as such exploitation is difficult, Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low in the context of Red Hat Satellite 5. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner eclipse
Published Apr 22, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Mar 27, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Apr 18, 2019
GHSA-XC67-HJX6-CGG6