Mortbay Jetty up to 3.0.x cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mortbay Jetty up to 3.0.x. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mort Bay Jetty before 6.1.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a directory listing request containing a ; (semicolon) character.

The bug was discovered 04/29/2009. The weakness was presented 05/05/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared at jira.codehaus.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-1524 since 05/05/2009. 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. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 55975 (Apache Hadoop Jetty XSS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses : XSS and running in the context r.

Upgrading to version 3.0.a92 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 years after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (50301) and Tenable (55975). See 48052 for similar entry.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
ATT&CK: T1059.007

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Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 55975
Nessus Name: Apache Hadoop Jetty XSS
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OpenVAS ID: 64089
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-5500 (jetty)
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Upgrade: Jetty 3.0.a92
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Advisory: jira.codehaus.org
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2009-1524 (🔍)
X-Force: 50301
Vulnerability Center: 22264 - Jetty < 6.1.17 HTTP Server Remote Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 34800 - Jetty Cross Site Scripting and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 34975 - Jetty Information Disclosure and Cross-Site Scripting, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 54187 - Jetty listing path cross-site scripting
Vupen: ADV-2010-1792

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Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 09/05/2019 09:15
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (80), 09/05/2019 09:15 (4)
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