April 5, 2024, 1:49 p.m. | Evan Grant

Tenable Research Advisories www.tenable.com

Path Traversal Affecting Multiple CData Products

A researcher at Tenable discovered a path traversal vulnerability affecting the Java versions of multiple CData products when deployed using the embedded Jetty server, with varying impacts per product. The issue exists because of a combination of how the embedded Jetty server and CData servlets handle requests.

Technical Details

The path traversal can be leveraged as a result of the following conditions:

  • The servlet mappings and security constraints laid out in each application's web.xml …

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