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CVE

CVE-2025-55749

XWiki Jetty Package (XJetty) allows accessing any application file through URL
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CVE

CVE-2025-55749

XWiki Jetty Package (XJetty) allows accessing any application file through URL

Impact

In an instance which is using the XWiki Jetty package (XJetty), a context is exposed to statically access any file located in the webapp/ folder.

It allows accessing files which might contains credentials, like http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg, http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.properties or http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml.

Patches

This has been patched in 16.10.11, 17.4.4, 17.7.0.

Workarounds

The workaround is to modify the start_xwiki.sh script following https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/8b68d8a70b43f25391b3ee48477d7eb71b95cf4b...99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10.

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Attribution

Vulnerability reported by Joseph Huber.

Package Versions Affected

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
8.7
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4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
C
H
U
0
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C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-53gx-j3p6-2rw9, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55749, https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/42fb063749dd88cc78196f72d7318b7179285ebd, https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10, https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform, https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/8b68d8a70b43f25391b3ee48477d7eb71b95cf4b...99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10, https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23438

Severity

0

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
0
EPSS Probability
0.00938%
EPSS Percentile
0.7572%
Introduced Version
16.7.0,17.0.0-rc-1,17.5.0
Fix Available
16.10.11,17.4.4,17.7.0

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