CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-4611

7.5 HIGH Published 2010-01-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-01-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Mort Bay Jetty 6.x through 6.1.22 and 7.0.0 writes backtrace data without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator, related to (1) a string value in the Age parameter to the default URI for the Cookie Dump Servlet in test-jetty-webapp/src/main/java/com/acme/CookieDump.java under cookie/, (2) an alphabetic value in the A parameter to jsp/expr.jsp, or (3) an alphabetic value in the Content-Length HTTP header to an arbitrary application.

Affected configurations

• mortbay jetty 6.0.0 • mortbay jetty 6.0.1 • mortbay jetty 6.0.2 • mortbay jetty 6.1.0 • mortbay jetty 6.1.1 • mortbay jetty 6.1.2 • mortbay jetty 6.1.3 • mortbay jetty 6.1.4 • mortbay jetty 6.1.5 • mortbay jetty 6.1.6 • mortbay jetty 6.1.7 • mortbay jetty 6.1.8 • mortbay jetty 6.1.9 • mortbay jetty 6.1.10 • mortbay jetty 6.1.11 • mortbay jetty 6.1.12 • mortbay jetty 6.1.14 • mortbay jetty 6.1.15 • mortbay jetty 6.1.16 • mortbay jetty 6.1.19 • mortbay jetty 6.1.20 • mortbay jetty 7.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References