CVE-2024-1459: Undertow: directory traversal vulnerability

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-02-12 · updated 2026-08-04
Weakness: CWE-24

Description

A path traversal vulnerability was found in Undertow. This issue may allow a remote attacker to append a specially-crafted sequence to an HTTP request for an application deployed to JBoss EAP, which may permit access to privileged or restricted files and directories.

Affected products

Red Hat undertow: all versions

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1674
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1675
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1676
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2763
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2764
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1459
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259475
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1677
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2763
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2764
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1459
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259475

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