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CVE-2025-55749 is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. Exploits are available; patches have been released and should be applied urgently.
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In an instance which is using the XWiki Jetty package (XJetty), a context is exposed to statically access any file located in the webapp/ folder.
It allows accessing files which might contains credentials, like http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg, http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.properties or http://myhots/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml.
This has been patched in 16.10.11, 17.4.4, 17.7.0.
The workaround is to modify the start_xwiki.sh script following https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/8b68d8a70b43f25391b3ee48477d7eb71b95cf4b...99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10.
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Vulnerability reported by Joseph Huber.
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