HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting rh-java-common-jetty-http package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.33% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RHJAVACOMMONJETTYHTTP-12205162
  • published27 Aug 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2017

Introduced: 1 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-7656  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 rh-java-common-jetty-http.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-java-common-jetty-http package and not the rh-java-common-jetty-http package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Eclipse Jetty, versions 9.2.x and older, 9.3.x (all configurations), and 9.4.x (non-default configuration with RFC2616 compliance enabled), HTTP/0.9 is handled poorly. An HTTP/1 style request line (i.e. method space URI space version) that declares a version of HTTP/0.9 was accepted and treated as a 0.9 request. If deployed behind an intermediary that also accepted and passed through the 0.9 version (but did not act on it), then the response sent could be interpreted by the intermediary as HTTP/1 headers. This could be used to poison the cache if the server allowed the origin client to generate arbitrary content in the response.

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