Path traversal attack on Windows platforms

HIGH 7.5CVE-2019-0207 · GHSA-89r3-rcpj-h7w6 · Published 16/09/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-0207 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting org.apache.tapestry:tapestry-core, tapestry (apache).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 5.4.5 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.apache.tapestry:tapestry-core Maven	`≥ 5.4.0, < 5.4.5`	`5.4.5`
tapestry apache	`≥ 5.4.0, ≤ 5.4.4`	No fix yet

Description

Tapestry processes assets /assets/ctx using classes chain StaticFilesFilter -> AssetDispatcher -> ContextResource, which doesn't filter the character \, so attacker can perform a path traversal attack to read any files on Windows platform.

NVD description

Tapestry processes assets `/assets/ctx` using classes chain `StaticFilesFilter -> AssetDispatcher -> ContextResource`, which doesn't filter the character `\`, so attacker can perform a path traversal attack to read any files on Windows platform.

References

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