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CVE-2014-7816

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 25.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-12-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in JBoss Undertow 1.0.x before 1.0.17, 1.1.x before 1.1.0.CR5, and 1.2.x before 1.2.0.Beta3, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a resource URI.

Affected products

• Red Hat undertow: through 1.0.16; through 1.1.0; through 1.2.0

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/830
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71328
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157478
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/UNDERTOW-338
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-4020
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/830
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71328
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157478
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/UNDERTOW-338
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-4020

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