CVE-2002-1178: Jetty HTTP Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 9.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the CGIServlet for Jetty HTTP server before 4.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via ..\ (dot-dot backslash) sequences in an HTTP request to the cgi-bin directory.

Affected products

• Jetty Jetty HTTP Server: up to and including 4.1.0

Published 2002-10-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.