CVE-2018-12536
In Eclipse Jetty Server, all 9.x versions, on webapps deployed using default Error Handling, when an intentionally bad query arrives that…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Eclipse Jetty Server, all 9.x versions, on webapps deployed using default Error Handling, when an intentionally bad query arrives that doesn't match a dynamic url-pattern, and is eventually handled by the DefaultServlet's static file serving, the bad characters can trigger a java.nio.file.InvalidPathException which includes the full path to the base resource directory that the DefaultServlet and/or webapp is using. If this InvalidPathException is then handled by the default Error Handler, the InvalidPathException message is included in the error response, revealing the full server path to the requesting system.
Timeline
ID reserved
By eclipse
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
The Eclipse Foundation · Eclipse Jetty
- affected unspecified – ≤ 9.2.0
- affected 9.3.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 9.3.24
- affected 9.4.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 9.4.11
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.eclipse.jetty:jetty-serverGHSA-9rgv-h7x4-qw8g (opens in a new tab)
References
References8
- 1041194 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190820 [jira] [Created] (AMQ-7279) Security Vulnerabilities in Libraries - jackson-databind-2.9.8.jar, tomcat-servlet-api-8.0.53.jar, tomcat-websocket-api-8.0.53.jar, zookeeper-3.4.6.jar, guava-18.0.jar, jetty-all-9.2.26.v20180806.jar, scala-library-2.11.0.jar (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181014-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03953en_us (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=535670 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20210514 [SECURITY] [DLA 2661-1] jetty9 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0567 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9rgv-h7x4-qw8g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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