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.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4611
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt
- https://fossies.org/linux/jetty-distribution/VERSION.txt
- https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/about.php
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jxp-7g74-2rc3