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CVE-2019-17640

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.0%

Critical (9.8) in eclipse vert.x. EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in io.vertx:vertx-web 3.9.4.

In Eclipse Vert.x 3.4.x up to 3.9.4, 4.0.0.milestone1, 4.0.0.milestone2, 4.0.0.milestone3, 4.0.0.milestone4, 4.0.0.milestone5, 4.0.0.Beta1, 4.0.0.Beta2, and 4.0.0.Beta3, StaticHandler doesn't correctly processes back slashes on Windows Operating systems, allowing, escape the webroot folder to the current working directory.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-22, CWE-23
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-vjw7-6gfq-6wf5Mavenio.vertx:vertx-web>=3.0.0 <3.9.43.9.4

References

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