What is CVE-2019-10242?

CVE-2019-10242 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Eclipse Kura, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-04-09.

How severe is CVE-2019-10242?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Eclipse Kura

CVE-2019-10242

In Eclipse Kura versions up to 4.0.0, the SkinServlet did not checked the path passed during servlet call, potentially allowing path traversal in get requests for a limited number of file types.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2019-04-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Eclipse Kura
The Eclipse Foundation Kura — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/107844 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-10242?: CVE-2019-10242 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Eclipse Kura, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-04-09.
How severe is CVE-2019-10242?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.