Undertow
CVE-2020-1757
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
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| Impact | CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
A flaw was found in all undertow-2.x.x SP1 versions prior to undertow-2.0.30.SP1, all undertow-1.x.x and undertow-2.x.x versions prior to undertow-2.1.0.Final, where the Servlet container causes. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in maven
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-20. A flaw was found in all undertow-2.x.x SP1 versions prior to undertow-2.0.30.SP1, all undertow-1.x.x and undertow-2.x.x versions prior to undertow-2.1.0.Final, where the Servlet container causes servletPath to normalize incorrectly by truncating the path after semicolon which may lead to an application mapping resulting in the security bypass. Affected products include: Redhat Undertow, Redhat Jboss Data Grid, Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, Redhat Jboss Fuse, Redhat Openshift Application Runtimes.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A flaw was found in all undertow-2.x.x SP1 versions prior to undertow-2.0.30.SP1, all undertow-1.x.x and undertow-2.x.x versions prior to undertow-2.1.0.Final, where the Servlet container causes servletPath to normalize incorrectly by truncating the path after semicolon which may lead to an application mapping resulting in the security bypass.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Directory traversal vulnerability in JBoss Undertow 1.0.x before 1.0.17, 1.1.x before 1.1.0.CR5, and 1.2.x before 1.2.0.
A file inclusion vulnerability was found in the AJP connector enabled with a default AJP configuration port of 8009 in U
A flaw was found in, all under 2.0.20, in the Undertow DEBUG log for io.undertow.request.security. Rated critical severi
A vulnerability was found in Undertow web server before 2.0.21. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability i
Undertow HTTP server (used in WildFly, JBoss EAP) fails to validate Host headers, enabling cache poisoning, internal net
Undertow, a Java web server used across Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Fuse, and other middleware prod
A flaw was found in Undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
A flaw was found in undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
A flaw was found in undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
A flaw was found in Undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
A flaw was found in Undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
When a POST request comes through AJP and the request exceeds the max-post-size limit (maxEntitySize), Undertow's AjpSer
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