A vulnerability was identified in JBoss, which could be exploited by remote attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This flaw is due to an error in the "org.jboss.web.WebServer" class that does not properly handle specially crafted HTTP requests containing the "%" character (port 8083), which may be exploited by remote attackers to determine the installation path and download certain configuration files.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Marc Schoenefeld
ChangeLog
2005-06-20 : Initial release
2005-09-21 : Updated Solution
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