CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4611
7.5 HIGH
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- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt Exploit
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt Exploit
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt Exploit