CVE-2009-4611

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.

How to fix CVE-2009-4611

To remediate CVE-2009-4611, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 6.1.23 or later

Is CVE-2009-4611 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• >= 6.0.0, < 6.1.23

CVSS scores

References (6)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4611
• PATCHgithub.com/eclipse/jetty.project
• WEBfossies.org/linux/jetty-distribution/VERSION.txt
• WEBwww.eclipse.org/jetty/about.php
• WEBwww.ush.it