CVE-2018-17605: Asset Pipeline Project Asset-Pipeline

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Asset Pipeline plugin before 3.0.4 for Grails. An attacker can perform directory traversal via a crafted request when a servlet-based application is executed in Jetty, because there is a classloader vulnerability that can allow a reverse file traversal route in AssetPipelineFilter.groovy or AssetPipelineFilterCore.groovy.

Affected products

• Asset Pipeline Project Asset-Pipeline: before 3.0.4 (fixed in 3.0.4)

Published 2018-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.