Jetty Directory Traversal Vulnerability

published 2006-06-02 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-qmgj-5h75-jr67 , EUVD-2022-4999

cvss: 5.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 4.0%; EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

Directory traversal vulnerability in jetty 6.0.x (jetty6) beta16 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e%5c (encoded ../) in the URL. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2005-3747.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-2758 updated 2026-11-07 cvss 5.3

jetty: Jetty URL encoded format directory traversal

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jetty-io, jetty-ant, jetty-jmx, jetty-jsp, jetty-xml, jetty-http, +30 more
not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Timeline

2006-06-02 Published
2012-03-07 First public exploit (EDB-18571)

Exploit prediction

4.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

EDB-18571 promise webpam 2.2.0.13 - Multiple Vulnerabilities webapps, 2012-03-07
securitytracker.com http://securitytracker.com/id?1016168 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.mortbay.jetty:jetty	<=6.0.beta16	no fix listed

Classification

Weakness

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

securitytracker.com /id?1016168
vdb-entry, exploit
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2758
advisory
github.com /jetty-project/codehaus-jetty6
package
web.archive.org /web/20200302050157/http://securitytracker.com/id?1016168
web

Sources

CVE List CVE-2006-2758
GitHub Advisory GHSA-qmgj-5h75-jr67
NVD CVE-2006-2758

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Summary