CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-28169

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Jun 09, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

For Eclipse Jetty versions <= 9.4.40, <= 10.0.2, <= 11.0.2, it is possible for requests to the ConcatServlet with a doubly encoded path to access protected resources within the WEB-INF directory. For example a request to /concat?/%2557EB-INF/web.xml can retrieve the web.xml file. This can reveal sensitive information regarding the implementation of a web application.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Jetty Eclipse * 9.4.41 (excluding)
Jetty Eclipse 10.0.0 (including) 10.0.3 (excluding)
Jetty Eclipse 11.0.0 (including) 11.0.3 (excluding)
Red Hat AMQ 7.9.0 RedHat jetty-server *
Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.0 RedHat jetty-server *
Red Hat Fuse 7.10 RedHat jetty *
Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus RedHat jetty *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 RedHat jenkins-0:2.289.3.1630554997-1.el8 *
RHINT Camel-K 1.8.1 RedHat jetty *
Jetty Ubuntu trusty *
Jetty Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Jetty Ubuntu xenial *
Jetty8 Ubuntu trusty *
Jetty8 Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Jetty8 Ubuntu xenial *
Jetty9 Ubuntu bionic *
Jetty9 Ubuntu groovy *
Jetty9 Ubuntu hirsute *
Jetty9 Ubuntu impish *
Jetty9 Ubuntu kinetic *
Jetty9 Ubuntu lunar *
Jetty9 Ubuntu mantic *
Jetty9 Ubuntu trusty *
Jetty9 Ubuntu xenial *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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