Medium [CVE-2024-1459] Undertow: directory traversal vulnerability
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2024-1459 affecting Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7.
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Summary
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 named by the advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 8; and 2 more.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 9; Red Hat Data Grid 8.
- before 2.3.12
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 2.3.12. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
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