CVE-2009-4611
Jetty 6.x-6.1.22 and 7.0.0 - Terminal Emulator Escape Sequence Injection via HTTP Request
Title source: llmDescription
Mort Bay Jetty 6.x through 6.1.22 and 7.0.0 writes backtrace data without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator, related to (1) a string value in the Age parameter to the default URI for the Cookie Dump Servlet in test-jetty-webapp/src/main/java/com/acme/CookieDump.java under cookie/, (2) an alphabetic value in the A parameter to jsp/expr.jsp, or (3) an alphabetic value in the Content-Length HTTP header to an arbitrary application.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Exploit x_refsource_misc
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt
Exploit x_refsource_misc
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded
Scores
EPSS
0.0318
EPSS Percentile
86.6%
Details
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (6)
mortbay/jetty
6.0.0 (28 CPE variants)
mortbay/jetty
6.0.1
mortbay/jetty
6.0.2
mortbay/jetty
6.1.0 (9 CPE variants)
mortbay/jetty
6.1.1 (2 CPE variants)
mortbay/jetty
6.1.2 (9 CPE variants)
Published
Jan 13, 2010
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026