Executive Summary
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Title | Mortbay Jetty fails to properly handle cookies with quotes |
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Name | VU#438616 | First vendor Publication | 2007-12-04 |
Vendor | VU-CERT | Last vendor Modification | 2007-12-04 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | M |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
Vulnerability Note VU#438616Mortbay Jetty fails to properly handle cookies with quotesOverviewMortbay Jetty fails to properly handle cookie quotes, which may allow session hijacking.I. DescriptionMortbay Jetty is a web server that is written in Java. Jetty fails to properly handle cookies with certain quote sequences. This can cause the Jetty cookie parsing mechanism to improperly handle all of the cookies in the cookie string that follow the cookie with the quote sequence.II. ImpactThis vulnerability can increase the possibility of a session hijacking success. In the presense of a cross-site scripting vulnerability, it may allow a denial-of-service attack against a web site by preventing a client from being able to log in using cookies.III. SolutionApply an updateThis issue is addressed in Mortbay Jetty 6.1.6. Details are available in the release notes.
References
Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Will Dormann.
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Original Source
Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/438616 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
Date | Description |
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2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for jetty FEDORA-2008-6141 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_6141_jetty_fc9.nasl |
2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for jetty FEDORA-2008-6164 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_6164_jetty_fc8.nasl |
2008-09-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: jetty File : nvt/freebsd_jetty.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
Id | Description |
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42496 | Jetty HTML Cookie Parameter Unspecified Character Sequence Hijacking Weakness |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2008-07-08 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2008-6141.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2008-07-08 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2008-6164.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2007-12-11 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_6ae7cef2a6ae11dc95e6000c29c5647f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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