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CVE-2016-0793

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the servlet filter restriction mechanism in WildFly (formerly JBoss Application Server) before 10.0.0.Final on Windows allows remote attackers to read the sensitive files in the (1) WEB-INF or (2) META-INF directory via a request that contains (a) lowercase or (b) "meaningless" characters.

Affected products

• Red Hat, Inc. wildfly: 10.0.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136323/Wildfly-Filter-Restriction-Bypass-Information-Disclosure.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305937
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180215-0001/
• https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03784en_us
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39573/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136323/Wildfly-Filter-Restriction-Bypass-Information-Disclosure.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305937
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180215-0001/
• https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03784en_us
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39573/

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