It was found that the AJP connector in undertow, as shipped in Jboss EAP 7.1.0.GA, does not use the ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH option and thus allow the the slash / anti-slash characters encoded in the url which may lead to path traversal and result in the information disclosure of arbitrary local files.
CVE-2018-1048
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.5%, top 33% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 72.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
January 24, 2018
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (10)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1534343
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1534343
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2018-1048(4)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2018:0481Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: jboss-ec2-eap package for EAP 7.1.1
- RHSA-2018:0479Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.1 on RHEL 6
- RHSA-2018:0480Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.1 for RHEL 7
- RHSA-2018:0478Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.1 security update
Patch Availability(4)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | eap7-xml-security-0:2.0.9-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7 | 2018-03-12 | redhat |
| redhat | undertow | 2018-03-12 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-xml-security-0:2.0.9-1.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6 | 2018-03-12 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-0:7.1.1-3.1.GA_redhat_3.ep7.el7 | 2018-03-12 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.jboss.eap:wildfly-undertow | 7.1.0.GA | 7.1.1.GA | — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
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