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CVE-2009-0278 (GCVE-0-2009-0278)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-27 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:31
VLAI
Summary
Sun Java System Application Server (AS) 8.1 and 8.2 allows remote attackers to read the Web Application configuration files in the (1) WEB-INF or (2) META-INF directory via a malformed request.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0208 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33397 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/33725 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
Date Public
2009-01-21 00:00
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.