Mortbay Jetty up to 7.0.0 Terminal input validation

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Mortbay Jetty. Affected is an unknown function of the component Terminal. The manipulation leads to input validation. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2009-4611. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mortbay Jetty. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Terminal. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mort Bay Jetty 6.x 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.

The weakness was published 01/13/2010 (Website). The advisory is shared at ush.it. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-4611 since 01/13/2010. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 87318 (Jetty Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entries are available at VDB-51541, VDB-51540, VDB-51539 and VDB-51537. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Mortbay

Name

• Jetty

Version

• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
• 6.1.9
• 6.1.10
• 6.1.11
• 6.1.12
• 6.1.14
• 6.1.15
• 6.1.16
• 6.1.19
• 6.1.20
• 7.0.0

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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