CVE-2024-1459
Redhat Undertow
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2024-1459 is a medium-severity Path Traversal: '../filedir' (CWE-24) vulnerability in Redhat Undertow. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Protocol or Service Impersonation (T1001.003); ranked in the top 23% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
A path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-1459 was identified in Undertow and affects applications deployed on JBoss EAP. The flaw, assigned CWE-24 and rated 5.3 under CVSS 3.1, permits an unauthenticated remote attacker to append a crafted sequence to an HTTP request and thereby reach privileged or restricted files and directories.
An attacker with network access can exploit the issue without authentication or user interaction by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to a vulnerable Undertow-based application running on JBoss EAP, resulting in unauthorized read access to sensitive resources on the server.
Red Hat has published multiple security advisories (RHSA-2024:1674, RHSA-2024:1675, RHSA-2024:1676, RHSA-2024:2763, and RHSA-2024:2764) that address the vulnerability through updated packages. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at 0.1010 with no material increase since disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-0728
Vulnerability Data
A path traversal vulnerability was found in Undertow. This issue may allow a remote attacker to append a specially-crafted sequence to an HTTP request for an application deployed to JBoss EAP, which may permit access to privileged or restricted files…
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Input validation directly neutralizes '../' sequences in externally-supplied pathnames before they are resolved.
Enforced access authorizations can limit the damage even when path traversal succeeds.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly require input validation and path sanitization that prevent ../ traversal.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC mandates input validation and path canonicalization that directly block ../ traversal.
Application security requirements explicitly call for controls against path traversal in file-handling functions.
A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (least privilege, default-deny, distrust-external-input, fail-securely, hardening, design review against attack patterns) that reach a minority slice of path-traversal defects when applied to input handling and directory restrictions; most instances remain possible if the specific neutralization is omitted.
Secure coding standards require neutralizing ../ sequences and canonicalizing paths before file operations.
Security testing in development catches path-traversal flaws before release.