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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2023-33544 json

hawtio vulnerable to Path Traversal

published 2023-06-01 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-p223-c4w6-q454 , EUVD-2023-1849

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

hawtio 2.17.2 is vulnerable to Path Traversal. it is possible to input malicious zip files, which can result in the high-risk files after decompression being stored in any location, even leading to file overwrite.

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-2023-33544 updated cvss 5.5

hawtio: path traversal via unsafe zip decompression

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 hawtio hawtio Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 hawtio hawtio Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 hawtio hawtio
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 hawtio hawtio Red Hat Fuse 7 hawtio hawtio Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 hawtio hawtio Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 hawtio hawtio Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack hawtio hawtio
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/hawtio/hawtio/issues/2832 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven io.hawt:project
<=2.17.2
 no fix listed

Classification

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

References

Sources

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