Vulnerability CVE-2009-4611


Published: 2010-01-13   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Nginx, Varnish, Cherokee, thttpd, mini-httpd, WEBrick, Orion, AOLserver, Yaws and Boa log escape sequence injection
ascii
17.01.2010

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Mortbay -> Jetty 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt

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