This module exploits a source code disclosure in Apache ActiveMQ. The vulnerability is due to the Jetty's ResourceHandler handling of specially crafted URI's starting with //. It has been tested successfully on Apache ActiveMQ 5.3.1 over Windows 2003 SP2 and Ubuntu 10.04.
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