CVE-2009-4611
HIGH7.3EPSS 0.95%Improper input validation in Mort Bay Jetty
Published: 5/2/2022Modified: 11/8/2023
Also known as:GHSA-6jxp-7g74-2rc3
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Maven/org.mortbay.jetty:jetty>= 6.0.0, < 6.1.23
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4611
- PATCHhttps://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project
- WEBhttps://fossies.org/linux/jetty-distribution/VERSION.txt
- WEBhttps://www.eclipse.org/jetty/about.php
- WEBhttp://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt
- WEBhttp://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt