Vulnerability Note VU#237888

Mortbay Jetty Dump Servlet vulnerable to cross-site scripting

Overview

The Mortbay Jetty Dump Servlet contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

I. Description

Mortbay Jetty is a web server that is written in Java. The Dump Servlet that is included with Jetty is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Note that according to the vendor, the Dump Servlet is for testing purposes and is not intended to be included in a live web site.

II. Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to perform a cross-site scripting attack against a Jetty web server. More information about cross-site scripting can be found in CERT Advisory CA-2000-02.

III. Solution

Apply an update

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

Remove the Dump Servlet

This issue can be mitigated by removing the Dump Servlet from the web server.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Mort Bay	Vulnerable	4-Dec-2007

References

http://svn.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty/trunk/VERSION.txt
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-452
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:	2007-11-05
Date First Published:	2007-12-04
Date Last Updated:	2007-12-03
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):	CVE-2007-5613
NVD-ID(s):	CVE-2007-5613
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	3.29
Document Revision:	7

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