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CVE-2021-28169

74
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-28169 is an information disclosure vulnerability affecting Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.40 and earlier, 10.0.2 and earlier, and 11.0.2 and earlier, as well as products from Debian, Eclipse, NetApp, and Oracle. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted, doubly encoded request to the ConcatServlet, allowing access to sensitive files within the WEB-INF directory, such as web.xml. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, with the primary impact being the potential exposure of confidential information. While not listed on the KEV catalog, its high EPSS and FAUCET Risk Score suggest a significant likelihood of exploitation, and Nuclei templates exist for detection, though no Metasploit or ExploitDB modules are publicly available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 10.0.2CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 11.0.2CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 9.4.40CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 9.4.41CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
78.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2021-28169 · Jun 24, 2021
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7848 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (17)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servletsFixed in: 11.0.3
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servletsFixed in: 9.4.41
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servletsFixed in: 10.0.3
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHINT Camel-K 1.8.1Fixed in: jetty
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.289.3.1630554997-1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat AMQ 7.9.0Fixed in: jetty-server
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.0Fixed in: jetty-server
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7.10Fixed in: jetty
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1Fixed in: jetty
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Service RegistryFixed in: jetty-server
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: jenkins
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-metering-hadoop
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-metering-hive
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-metering-presto
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)Fixed in: opendaylight

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-gwcr-j4wh-j3cqmedium

Jetty Utility Servlets ConcatServlet Double Decoding Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Jun 10, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-28169Moderate

jetty: requests to the ConcatServlet and WelcomeFilter are able to access protected resources within the WEB-INF directory

Jun 8, 2021

References

github.com / eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-gwcr-j4wh-j3cq
Third Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r04a4b4553a23aff26f42635a6ae388c3b162aab30a88d12e59d05168%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r234f6452297065636356f43654cdacef565b8f9ceb0e0c07ffb8c73b%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r2721aba31a8562639c4b937150897e24f78f747cdbda8641c0f659fe%40%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r284de9c5399486dfff12ab9e7323ca720dd7019a9a3e11c8510a7140%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r29678972c3f8164b151fd7a5802785d402e530c09870a82ffc7681a4%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r32b0b640ad2be3b858f0af51c68a7d5c5a66a462c8bbb93699825cd3%40%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r33eb06b05afbc7df28d31055cae0cb3fd36cab808c884bf6d680bea5%40%3Cdev.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r67c4f90658fde875521c949448c54c98517beecdc7f618f902c620ec%40%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r8a1a332899a1f92c8118b0895b144b27a78e3f25b9d58a34dd5eb084%40%3Cnotifications.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r91e34ff61aff8fd25a3f2a21539597c6ef7589a31c199b0a9546477c%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rb1292d30462b9baedea7c5d9594fc75990d9aa0ec223b48054ca9c25%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rbefa055282d52d6b58d29a79fbb0be65ab0a38d25f00bd29eaf5e6fd%40%3Cnotifications.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rd5b52362f5edf98e0dcab6541a381f571cccc05ad9188e793af688f3%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rddbb4f8d5db23265bb63d14ef4b3723b438abc1589f877db11d35450%40%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/ref1c161a1621504e673f9197b49e6efe5a33ce3f0e6d8f1f804fc695%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rf36f1114e84a3379b20587063686148e2d5a39abc0b8a66ff2a9087a%40%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rfff6ff8ffb31e8a32619c79774def44b6ffbb037c128c5ad3eab7171%40%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00017.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20210727-0009
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-4949
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
PatchThird Party Advisory