GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-p26g-97m4-6q7c Eclipse Jetty's cookie parsing of quoted values can exfiltrate values from other cookies
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-26049
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
- Reviewed
- 2023-04-18
Affected packages
• Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server: < 9.4.51.v20230217 → fixed in 9.4.51.v20230217
• Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server: >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.14 → fixed in 10.0.14
• Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server: >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.14 → fixed in 11.0.14
• Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server: >= 12.0.0alpha0, < 12.0.0.beta0 → fixed in 12.0.0.beta0
Description
Nonstandard cookie parsing in Jetty may allow an attacker to smuggle cookies within other cookies, or otherwise perform unintended behavior by tampering with the cookie parsing mechanism.
If Jetty sees a cookie VALUE that starts with `"` (double quote), it will continue to read the cookie string until it sees a closing quote -- even if a semicolon is encountered.
So, a cookie header such as:
`DISPLAY_LANGUAGE="b; JSESSIONID=1337; c=d"` will be parsed as one cookie, with the name `DISPLAY_LANGUAGE` and a value of `b; JSESSIONID=1337; c=d`
instead of 3 separate cookies.
Impact
This has security implications because if, say, `JSESSIONID` is an `HttpOnly` cookie, and the `DISPLAY_LANGUAGE` cookie value is rendered on the page, an attacker can smuggle the `JSESSIONID` cookie into the `DISPLAY_LANGUAGE` cookie and thereby exfiltrate it. This is significant when an intermediary is enacting some policy based on cookies, so a smuggled cookie can bypass that policy yet still be seen by the Jetty server.
Patches
• 9.4.51.v20230217 - via PR #9352
• 10.0.15 - via PR #9339
• 11.0.15 - via PR #9339
Workarounds
No workarounds
References
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2965
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-26049 Jetty is a java based web server and servlet engine. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-p26g-97m4-6q7c web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26049 advisory
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9339 web
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9352 web
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project package
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-9.4.51.v20230217 web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00039.html web
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230526-0001 web
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5507 web
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2965 web
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265 web