CVE-2017-1000028

high

Published 2017-07-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

Description

Oracle, GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4.1 is vulnerable to both authenticated and unauthenticated Directory Traversal vulnerability, that can be exploited by issuing a specially crafted HTTP GET request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39441 webapps multiple verified

Trustwave's SpiderLabs · 2015-08-27

Oracle GlassFish Server 4.1 - Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-45198 webapps linux

Dhiraj Mishra · 2018-08-14

Oracle Glassfish OSE 4.1 - Path Traversal (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-45196 webapps windows verified

Metasploit · 2018-08-14

Oracle GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4.1 - Path Traversal (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/glassfish_traversal rank 300

Path Traversal in Oracle GlassFish Server Open Source Edition

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oracle	glassfish_server	`4.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.