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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-4609

Medium
5/10

Summary

The Dump Servlet in all versions of Mort Bay Jetty. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about internal variables and other data via a request to a URI ending in /dump/, as demonstrated by discovering the value of the getPathTranslated variable.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published