GHSA-53gx-j3p6-2rw9HighCVSS 7.5
XWiki Jetty Package (XJetty) allows accessing any application file through URL
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
In an instance which is using the XWiki Jetty package (XJetty), a context is exposed to statically access any file located in the webapp/ folder.
It allows accessing files which might contains credentials, like http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg, http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.properties or http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml.
Patches
This has been patched in 16.10.11, 17.4.4, 17.7.0.
Workarounds
The workaround is to modify the start_xwiki.sh script following https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/8b68d8a70b43f25391b3ee48477d7eb71b95cf4b...99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10.
For more information
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Attribution
Vulnerability reported by Joseph Huber.
🎯 Affected products3
- maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-tool-jetty-resources:>= 16.7.0, < 16.10.11
- maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-tool-jetty-resources:>= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.4.4
- maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-tool-jetty-resources:>= 17.5.0, < 17.7.0
🔗 References (7)
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-53gx-j3p6-2rw9
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/42fb063749dd88cc78196f72d7318b7179285ebd
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/8b68d8a70b43f25391b3ee48477d7eb71b95cf4b...99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23438
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55749
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-53gx-j3p6-2rw9