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GHSA-gwcr-j4wh-j3cq

GitHub Security Advisory

Jetty Utility Servlets ConcatServlet Double Decoding Information Disclosure Vulnerability

✓ GitHub Reviewed MODERATE Has CVE

Advisory Details

Requests to the `ConcatServlet` and `WelcomeFilter` are able to access protected resources within the `WEB-INF` directory. For example a request to the `ConcatServlet` with a URI of `/concat?/%2557EB-INF/web.xml` can retrieve the web.xml file. This can reveal sensitive information regarding the implementation of a web application.

This occurs because both `ConcatServlet` and `WelcomeFilter` decode the supplied path to verify it is not within the `WEB-INF` or `META-INF` directories. It then uses this decoded path to call `RequestDispatcher` which will also do decoding of the path. This double decoding allows paths with a doubly encoded `WEB-INF` to bypass this security check.

### Impact
This affects all versions of `ConcatServlet` and `WelcomeFilter` in versions before 9.4.41, 10.0.3 and 11.0.3.

### Workarounds

If you cannot update to the latest version of Jetty, you can instead deploy your own version of the [`ConcatServlet`](https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/4204526d2fdad355e233f6bf18a44bfe028ee00b/jetty-servlets/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/servlets/ConcatServlet.java) and/or the [`WelcomeFilter`](https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/4204526d2fdad355e233f6bf18a44bfe028ee00b/jetty-servlets/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/servlets/WelcomeFilter.java) by using the code from the latest version of Jetty.

Affected Packages

Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 9.4.41)
Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets
Affected versions: 10.0.0 (fixed in 10.0.3)
Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets
Affected versions: 11.0.0 (fixed in 11.0.3)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-gwcr-j4wh-j3cq
Published
June 10, 2021 3:43 PM
Last Modified
February 8, 2022 9:23 PM
CVSS Score
5.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 25, 2025 6:29 AM

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