XWiki Jetty Package (XJetty) allows accessing any application file through URL
Date: 2025-12
Affected: maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-tool-jetty-resources, maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-tool-jetty-resources, maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-tool-jetty-resources
Attack vector: auth-bypass
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2025-55749
CWE: CWE-284
CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

### Impact 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. ### Patches This has been patched in 16.10.11, 17.4.4, 17.7.0. ### Workarounds The workaround is to modify the start_xwiki.sh script following https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/8b68d8a70b43f25391b3ee48477d7eb71b95cf4b...99a04a0e2143583f5154a43e02174155da7e8e10. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [Jira XWiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/) * Email us at [Security Mailing List](mailto:security@xwiki.org) ### Attribution Vulnerability reported by Joseph Huber.


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