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Vulnerability Note VU#212984

Mortbay Jetty vulnerable to HTTP response splitting

Overview

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

I. 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.

II. Impact

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

III. Solution

Apply an update

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

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
Mort BayVulnerable4-Dec-2007

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

Date Public:2007-11-03
Date First Published:2007-12-04
Date Last Updated:2007-12-03
CERT Advisory: 
CVE-ID(s):CVE-2007-5615
NVD-ID(s):CVE-2007-5615
US-CERT Technical Alerts: 
Metric:4.41
Document Revision:3

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