GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-6jxp-7g74-2rc3 Improper input validation in Mort Bay Jetty
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2009-4611
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.mortbay.jetty:jetty
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
- Reviewed
- 2022-06-10
Affected packages
• Maven org.mortbay.jetty:jetty: >= 6.0.0, < 6.1.23 → fixed in 6.1.23
• Maven org.mortbay.jetty:jetty: >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.2 → fixed in 7.0.2
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2009-4611 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… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4611 advisory
- https://fossies.org/linux/jetty-distribution/VERSION.txt web
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project package
- https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/about.php web
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt web
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt web