CVE-2024-1459

Undertow: directory traversal vulnerability

MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.71 % · percentile 77 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-02-12 20:30 UTC
Updated: 2026-08-04 21:32 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-24 — Path Traversal: '../filedir'

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	redhat
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

GHSA-v76w-3ph8-vm66 — Undertow Path Traversal vulnerability

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-0728
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-1459

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:redhat:undertow:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
undertow	affected 0 < 2.3.12
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:2.16.0-18.redhat_00052.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:3.4.10-2.redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:5.13.3.202401111512-1.r_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:1.9.4-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:3.3.21-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:5.3.36-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:11.0.18-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:1.1.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:1.3.9-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:2.0.1-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:1.1.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:5.0.27-4.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:1.10.0-35.Final_redhat_00034.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:3.8.12-1.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:1.0.17-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:5.5.5-6.redhat_2.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:7.4.16-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el8eap < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected 0:1.15.22-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap < *

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD