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CVE-2021-28164
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 82.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2021-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-200
Description
In Eclipse Jetty 9.4.37.v20210219 to 9.4.38.v20210224, the default compliance mode allows requests with URIs that contain %2e or %2e%2e segments to access protected resources within the WEB-INF directory. For example a request to /context/%2e/WEB-INF/web.xml can retrieve the web.xml file. This can reveal sensitive information regarding the implementation of a web application.
Affected products
- The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty: 9.4.37-20210219, 9.4.38-20210224
- Cloud Manager: all versions
- NetApp E-Series Performance Analyzer: all versions
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x: from 11.0 through 11.70.1
- NetApp E-Series Santricity Web Services: all versions
- NetApp, Inc. Element Plug-in for vCenter Server: all versions
- NetApp Santricity Cloud Connector: all versions
- NetApp SnapCenter: all versions
- NetApp SnapCenter Plugin for VMware vSphere: all versions
- NetApp Storage Replication Adapter For Clustered Data Ontap: from 9.6
- NetApp Vasa Provider For Clustered Data Ontap: from 9.6
- NetApp Virtual Storage Console: from 9.6
- Oracle Autovue For Agile Product Lifecycle Management: 21.0.2
- Oracle Banking Apis: 20.1, 21.1
- Oracle Corporation Banking Digital Experience: 20.1, 21.1
- Oracle Communications Session Route Manager: from 8.0.0 through 8.2.4
- Oracle Siebel Core - Automation: through 21.9
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164590/Jetty-9.4.37.v20210219-Information-Disclosure.html
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-v7ff-8wcx-gmc5
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0841b06b48324cfc81325de3c05a92e53f997185f9d71ff47734d961%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r111f1ce28b133a8090ca4f809a1bdf18a777426fc058dc3a16c39c66%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2a3ea27cca2ac7352d392b023b72e824387bc9ff16ba245ec663bdc6%40%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2ea2f0541121f17e470a0184843720046c59d4bde6d42bf5ca6fad81%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3c55b0baa4dc38958ae147b2f216e212605f1071297f845e14477d36%40%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4a66bfbf62281e31bc1345ebecbfd96f35199eecd77bfe4e903e906f%40%3Cissues.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4b1fef117bccc7f5fd4c45fd2cabc26838df823fe5ca94bc42a4fd46%40%3Cissues.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5b3693da7ecb8a75c0e930b4ca26a5f97aa0207d9dae4aa8cc65fe6b%40%3Cissues.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6ac9e263129328c0db9940d72b4a6062e703c58918dd34bd22cdf8dd%40%3Cissues.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r763840320a80e515331cbc1e613fa93f25faf62e991974171a325c82%40%3Cdev.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
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