Improper Input Validation Affecting jetty package, versions <6.1.22-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.25% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-JETTY-310133
  • published13 Jan 2010
  • disclosed13 Jan 2010

Introduced: 13 Jan 2010

CVE-2009-4611  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 jetty to version 6.1.22-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jetty package and not the jetty package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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