Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input Affecting org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server package, versions [,12.0.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGECLIPSEJETTY-8186158
  • published 15 Oct 2024
  • disclosed 14 Oct 2024
  • credit z3r0yu

How to fix?

Upgrade org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server to version 12.0.12 or higher.

Overview

org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server is a lightweight highly scalable java based web server and servlet engine.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input via the HttpURI class due to insufficient validation on the authority segment of a URI. An attacker can manipulate the URI parsing to redirect requests or initiate server-side requests to unintended destinations by supplying malformed URIs that bypass validation checks.

Notes:

  1. This is only exploitable if the application uses decoded user data as encoded URIs in conjunction with the HttpURI class used directly;

  2. The Jetty usage of the HttpURI class is not vulnerable.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by not passing decoded user data as encoded URIs to any URI class/method, including HttpURI.

PoC

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CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
6.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    Present
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    Low
  • Availability (VA)
    None
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None