Mortbay Jetty up to 6.1 Cookie cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Mortbay Jetty Jetty up to 6.1. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument Cookie with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mortbay Jetty before 6.1.6rc1 does not properly handle "certain quote sequences" in HTML cookie parameters, which allows remote attackers to hijack browser sessions via unspecified vectors.

The bug was discovered 11/05/2007. The weakness was released 11/05/2007 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2007-5614 since 10/21/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 33417 (Fedora 9 : jetty-5.1.14-1jpp.2.fc9 (2008-6141)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 6.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 9 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (38897) and Tenable (33417). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 39942 and 39940.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
ATT&CK: T1059.007

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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 33417
Nessus Name: Fedora 9 : jetty-5.1.14-1jpp.2.fc9 (2008-6141)
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OpenVAS ID: 59976
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: jetty
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Upgrade: Jetty 6.1

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Advisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-5614 (🔍)
X-Force: 38897
Vulnerability Center: 17130 - Jetty HTML Cookie Parameter Error Allows Remote Attacker to Conduct Session Hijack Attack, High
SecurityFocus: 26695 - Jetty Cookie Names Session Hijacking Vulnerability
Secunia: 27925 - Jetty Multiple Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 42496 - Jetty HTML Cookie Parameter Unspecified Character Sequence Hijacking Weakness

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Created: 03/16/2015 13:43
Updated: 08/01/2019 17:50
Changes: 03/16/2015 13:43 (83), 08/01/2019 17:50 (2)
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