CVE-2021-34429

CRITICALNVD 5.39.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because EPSS predicted 99% probability of exploitation within the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs) when EchelonGraph scored this CVE. NVD baseline CVSS 5.3 retained for reference. Confidence: see factors.

Triggered by: EPSS exploit prediction (continuous uplift above 30%)
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekWeaponized

Also known asEUVD-2021-1493 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-vjv5-gp2w-65vm (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 99%
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, other public proof-of-concept code)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 99%CVSS: 5.3Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

For Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.37-9.4.42, 10.0.1-10.0.5 & 11.0.1-11.0.5, URIs can be crafted using some encoded characters to access the content of the WEB-INF directory and/or bypass some security constraints. This is a variation of the vulnerability reported in CVE-2021-28164/GHSA-v7ff-8wcx-gmc5.

CVSS v3
5.3
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
64
EG Risk 64/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity53% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation99% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
99%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is EPSS's lift toward 9.0 from its impact severity (EG Severity, CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM): a likelihood of exploitation, not impact.

EG Severity
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
99% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 15, 2021

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated Oct 15, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github.
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Encoded URIs can access WEB-INF · Advisory · jetty/jetty.project · GitHub

https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-vjv5-gp2w-65vm

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2021-34429(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatjetty-server2022-01-13redhat
mavenorg.eclipse.jetty:jetty-webapp @ 9.4.43 (fixes >= 9.4.37, < 9.4.43)—ghsa
mavenorg.eclipse.jetty:jetty-webapp @ 10.0.6 (fixes >= 10.0.1, < 10.0.6)—ghsa
mavenorg.eclipse.jetty:jetty-webapp @ 11.0.6 (fixes >= 11.0.1, < 11.0.6)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
jetty9—
  • every version up to 9.4.39-3: fixed in 9.4.39-3
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
jetty9—
  • every version up to 9.4.39-3: fixed in 9.4.39-3
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
jetty9—
  • every version up to 9.4.39-3: fixed in 9.4.39-3
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
jetty9—
  • every version up to 9.4.39-3: fixed in 9.4.39-3
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Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-webapp11.0.1, 11.0.2, 11.0.3, 11.0.4, 11.0.5
  • 9.4.37 up to 9.4.43: fixed in 9.4.43
  • 10.0.1 up to 10.0.6: fixed in 10.0.6
  • 11.0.1 up to 11.0.6: fixed in 11.0.6
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Weakness Classification(3)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 51× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 12 repeat rows among the latest 98 are merged into the row they repeat.

  1. 2026-11-01 18:09 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 18:09 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-01 18:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjv5-gp2w-65vm · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  4. 2026-11-01 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjv5-gp2w-65vm · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  5. 2026-11-01 08:32 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-31 19:15 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-31 19:15 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-30 20:21 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-30 20:21 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-29 21:29 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-29 21:29 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-28 22:37 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-28 22:37 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-27 23:45 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-27 23:45 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-27 00:51 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-27 00:51 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-25 22:16 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-25 18:26 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  21. 2026-10-24 23:16 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-24 23:16 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-24 00:24 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-24 00:24 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-23 01:28 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-23 01:28 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-22 02:32 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-22 02:32 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  5. 2026-10-21 03:40 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-21 03:40 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-20 04:46 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-20 04:46 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-19 05:39 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-19 05:39 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-18 06:46 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-18 06:46 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-17 07:52 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-17 07:52 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-16 08:58 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-16 08:58 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-15 08:15 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-15 08:15 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  20. 2026-10-14 04:24 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-14 04:24 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-13 00:02 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-12 19:15 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-11 23:40 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  26. 2026-10-07 23:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  27. 2026-09-30 15:37 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-25 22:15 UTCOSV refresh
  29. 2026-09-16 14:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  30. 2026-09-07 15:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  31. 2026-09-06 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  32. 2026-09-06 12:30 UTCOSV refresh
  33. 2026-09-05 15:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  34. 2026-08-30 19:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  35. 2026-08-28 21:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  36. 2026-08-26 14:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  37. 2026-08-25 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  38. 2026-08-24 14:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  39. 2026-08-19 23:15 UTCOSV refresh
  40. 2026-08-16 02:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  41. 2026-08-04 18:18 UTCOSV refresh
  42. 2026-08-03 10:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  43. 2026-08-02 02:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  44. 2026-07-23 02:01 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-07-22 22:48 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-07-22 14:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  47. 2026-07-18 16:29 UTCOSV refresh
  48. 2026-07-09 19:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  49. 2026-06-30 23:00 UTCOSV refresh
  50. 2026-06-28 14:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  51. 2026-06-15 17:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  52. 2026-06-13 01:46 UTCOSV refresh
  53. 2026-06-08 14:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  54. 2026-06-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  55. 2026-06-05 22:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  56. 2026-05-31 00:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  57. 2026-05-28 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  58. 2026-05-26 13:30 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-05-26 13:30 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-05-26 07:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  61. 2026-05-24 21:12 UTCOSV refresh

Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 1 GitHub PoC), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Metasploitauxiliary/gather/jetty_web_inf_disclosure✓ verified
    Published Nov 12, 2021

    Jetty WEB-INF File Disclosure

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-50478
    Published Nov 3, 2021

    Eclipse Jetty 11.0.5 - Sensitive File Disclosure

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCColdFusionX/CVE-2021-34429
    Published Nov 3, 2021

    POC for CVE-2021-34429 - Eclipse Jetty 11.0.5 Sensitive File Disclosure

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2021/CVE-2021-34429.yaml
    Published Jul 22, 2021

    Eclipse Jetty - Information Disclosure

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2021-34429?
CVE-2021-34429 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 15, 2021. For Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.37-9.4.42, 10.0.1-10.0.5 & 11.0.1-11.0.5, URIs can be crafted using some encoded characters to access the content of the WEB-INF directory and/or bypass some security constraints. This is a variation of the vulnerability reported in CVE-2021-28164/GHSA-v7ff-8wcx-gmc5.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-34429 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-34429 was published on July 15, 2021. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-34429 actively exploited?
CVE-2021-34429 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 99% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-34429?
CVE-2021-34429 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2021-34429?
A fix for CVE-2021-34429 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2021-34429 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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