Overview
Mortbay Jetty fails to properly handle cookie quotes, which may allow session hijacking.
Description
Mortbay 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. |
Impact
This 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. |
Solution
Apply an update This issue is addressed in Mortbay Jetty 6.1.6. Details are available in the release notes. |
Vendor Information
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-2007-5614 |
| Severity Metric: | 2.78 |
| Date Public: | 2007-11-05 |
| Date First Published: | 2007-12-04 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2007-12-04 04:05 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 4 |