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CVE-2026-56122

HIGH Exploitation: PoC
7.5
CVSS 3.1
Description
Winstone Servlet Engine through 0.9.10 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by sending HTTP GET requests with dot-dot-slash sequences that are not sanitized when serving static files from the configured webroot. Attackers can traverse outside the webroot directory using traversal-prefixed paths in a single HTTP request to read any file accessible to the servlet engine process, including sensitive system files when the service runs with elevated privileges.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-56122
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
VulnCheck
Reserved
2026-06-18 19:15 UTC
Published
2026-06-25 13:34 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-25 14:07 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory …
Vendor / Product
rickknowles / Winstone Servlet Container
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

7.5 HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
PoC
Automatable
yes
Tech. Impact
partial
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
rickknowles Winstone Servlet Container — 0 ≤ 0.9.10
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-22 cna Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSS scores (2)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
8.7 HIGH 4.0 cna CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 HIGH 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References (3)
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