CVE-2023-24815CWE-22

Disclosure of classpath resources on Windows when mounted on a wildcard route in vertx-web

Medium · published February 9, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
59.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Vert.x-Web is a set of building blocks for building web applications in the java programming language. When running vertx web applications that serve files using `StaticHandler` on Windows Operating Systems and Windows File Systems, if the mount point is a wildcard (`*`) then an attacker can exfiltrate any class path resource. When computing the relative path to locate the resource, in case of wildcards, the code: `return "/" + rest;` from `Utils.java` returns the user input (without validation) as the segment to lookup. Even though checks are performed to avoid escaping the sandbox, given that the input was not sanitized `\` are not properly handled and an attacker can build a path that is valid within the classpath. This issue only affects users deploying in windows environments and upgrading is the advised remediation path. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00919 · 59.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2023-02-09T17:36Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 FEB 17:36Z
    Disclosure of classpath resources on Windows when mounted on a wildcard route in vertx-web
    cvelistv5