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A critical vulnerability in Admin GUI in Payara Server Full 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 7.2026.x, 6.2025.x, 6.2024.x on All platforms that allows the attacker to leak the admin gfresttoken to an attacker-controlled host that can result in a full unauthenticated takeover of Payara admin domain.
A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the DownloadServlet of the Admin GUI in Payara Server allows a remote attacker to exfiltrate the administrator's REST session token (gfresttoken) to an attacker-controlled host via a crafted request URL. Combined with the absence of CSRF protection on DownloadServlet, an unauthenticated attacker can trick a logged-in administrator into triggering the token leak, then replay the stolen token to gain full administrative access to the Payara domain, leading to arbitrary code execution via WAR deployment. The vulnerability exists in the DownloadServlet and associated ContentSource implementations (LogViewerContentSource, LogFilesContentSource, LBConfigContentSource, ClientStubsContentSource) within the admingui:console-common module.
Cross-site scripting in REST Management Interface in Payara Server <4.1.2.191.54, <5.83.0, <6.34.0, <7.2026.1 allows an attacker to mislead the administrator to change the admin password via URL Payload.
CVE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Payara Platform Payara Server allows : Remote Code Inclusion.This issue affects Payara Server: from 4.1.2.1919.1 before 4.1.2.191.51, from 5.20.0 before 5.68.0, from 6.0.0 before 6.23.0, from 6.2022.1 before 6.2025.2.
Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting') vulnerability in Payara Platform Payara Server (Grizzly, REST Management Interface modules), Payara Platform Payara Micro (Grizzly modules) allows Manipulating State, Identity Spoofing.This issue affects Payara Server: from 4.1.151 through 4.1.2.191.51, from 5.20.0 through 5.70.0, from 5.2020.2 through 5.2022.5, from 6.2022.1 through 6.2024.12, from 6.0.0 through 6.21.0; Payara Micro: from 4.1.152 through 4.1.2.191.51, from 5.20.0 through 5.70.0, from 5.2020.2 through 5.2022.5, from 6.2022.1 through 6.2024.12, from 6.0.0 through 6.21.0.
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Payara Platform Payara Server (Admin Console modules) allows Remote Code Inclusion.This issue affects Payara Server: from 5.20.0 before 5.68.0, from 6.0.0 before 6.19.0, from 6.2022.1 before 6.2024.10, from 4.1.2.191.1 before 4.1.2.191.51.
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Payara Platform Payara Server (Logging modules) allows Sensitive credentials posted in plain-text on the server log.This issue affects Payara Server: from 6.0.0 before 6.18.0, from 6.2022.1 before 6.2024.9, from 5.20.0 before 5.67.0, from 5.2020.2 before 5.2022.5, from 4.1.2.191.0 before 4.1.2.191.50.
URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in Payara Platform Payara Server (REST Management Interface modules) allows Session Hijacking.This issue affects Payara Server: from 6.0.0 before 6.18.0, from 6.2022.1 before 6.2024.9, from 5.2020.2 before 5.2022.5, from 5.20.0 before 5.67.0, from 4.1.2.191.0 before 4.1.2.191.50.
URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in Payara Platform Payara Server, Micro and Embedded (Servlet Implementation modules) allows Redirect Access to Libraries.This issue affects Payara Server, Micro and Embedded: from 5.0.0 before 5.57.0, from 4.1.2.191 before 4.1.2.191.46, from 6.0.0 before 6.8.0, from 6.2023.1 before 6.2023.11.
A JNDI rebind operation in the default ORB listener in Payara Server 4.1.2.191 (Enterprise), 5.20.0 and newer (Enterprise), and 5.2020.1 and newer (Community), when Java 1.8u181 and earlier is used, allows remote attackers to load malicious code on the server once a JNDI directory scan is performed.
Payara before 2022-11-04, when deployed to the root context, allows attackers to visit META-INF and WEB-INF, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-37422. This affects Payara Platform Community before 4.1.2.191.38, 5.x before 5.2022.4, and 6.x before 6.2022.1, and Payara Platform Enterprise before 5.45.0.
Payara through 5.2022.2 allows directory traversal without authentication. This affects Payara Server, Payara Micro, and Payara Server Embedded.
Payara Micro Community 5.2021.6 and below allows Directory Traversal.