Vulnerability Note VU#212984

Overview

Mortbay Jetty is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to inject various HTTP headers

Description

Mortbay Jetty is a web server that is written in Java. Jetty fails to properly handle HTTP headers with CRLF sequences, which can allow an attacker to inject certain HTTP headers into server responses.

Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to perform a cross-site scripting attack, set cookies, or poison a proxy cache.

Solution

Apply an update This issue is addressed in Mortbay Jetty 6.1.6. Details are available in the release notes.

Systems Affected (Learn More)

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Mort Bay	Affected	25 Oct 2007	04 Dec 2007

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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

Group	Score	Vector
Base	N/A	N/A
Temporal	N/A	N/A
Environmental	N/A	N/A

References

• http://svn.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty/trunk/VERSION.txt
• http://dist.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-6.1.6/

Credit

Thanks to  Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

• CVE IDs: CVE-2007-5615
• Date Public: 03 Nov 2007
• Date First Published: 04 Dec 2007
• Date Last Updated: 03 Dec 2007
• Severity Metric: 4.41
• Document Revision: 3