CVE-2018-12536

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2018-06-27
CWE:
CWE-209
Bugzilla:
1597418: CVE-2018-12536 jetty: full server path revealed when using the default Error Handling

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

In Eclipse Jetty Server, all 9.x versions, on webapps deployed using default Error Handling, when an intentionally bad query arrives that doesn't match a dynamic url-pattern, and is eventually handled by the DefaultServlet's static file serving, the bad characters can trigger a java.nio.file.InvalidPathException which includes the full path to the base resource directory that the DefaultServlet and/or webapp is using. If this InvalidPathException is then handled by the default Error Handler, the InvalidPathException message is included in the error response, revealing the full server path to the requesting system.

Find out more about CVE-2018-12536 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 3.7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-java-common-jetty Will not fix
Red Hat Satellite 5 jetty Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 jetty Affected
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jetty Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jetty Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 jetty-eclipse Not affected

Mitigation

Information disclosure occurs when java.nio.file.InvalidPathException occurs and is handled by the default Jetty error handler. To protect against this, a custom error handler can be configured for that particular error or for a larger set of errors according to the documentation link below. Red Hat Product Security advises that production deployments on Jetty use custom error handlers to limit the information disclosed and to ensure effective logging of error conditions.

http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/custom-error-pages.html

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