CVE-2011-4404

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 58.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-11-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The default configuration of the HTTP server in Jetty in vSphere Update Manager in VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0 before Update 4 and 4.1 before Update 2 allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors, a related issue to CVE-2009-1523.

Affected products

VMware Vcenter Update Manager: 4.0, 4.0-update_1, 4.0-update_2, 4.0-update_3, 4.1, 4.1-update_1

References

http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-6/xref/org/mortbay/jetty/handler/ResourceHandler.html
http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-6/xref/org/mortbay/jetty/servlet/DefaultServlet.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026341
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0014.html
http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-6/xref/org/mortbay/jetty/handler/ResourceHandler.html
http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-6/xref/org/mortbay/jetty/servlet/DefaultServlet.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026341
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0014.html

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