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. |
Vendor Information
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CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Will Dormann.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2007-5615 |
| Severity Metric: | 4.41 |
| Date Public: | 2007-11-03 |
| Date First Published: | 2007-12-04 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2007-12-04 04:21 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 3 |