CVE-2023-26049

LOW

Jetty <9.4.51 - Cookie Smuggling via Quoted Value Parsing

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2023-26049. PoCs published by uthrasri.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The repository contains source code files from Jetty 9.4.31, likely for analysis or patching purposes related to CVE-2023-26049. No functional exploit code is present, but the files provide technical context for the vulnerability.

Description

Jetty is a java based web server and servlet engine. Nonstandard cookie parsing in Jetty may allow an attacker to smuggle cookies within other cookies, or otherwise perform unintended behavior by tampering with the cookie parsing mechanism. If Jetty sees a cookie VALUE that starts with `"` (double quote), it will continue to read the cookie string until it sees a closing quote -- even if a semicolon is encountered. So, a cookie header such as: `DISPLAY_LANGUAGE="b; JSESSIONID=1337; c=d"` will be parsed as one cookie, with the name DISPLAY_LANGUAGE and a value of b; JSESSIONID=1337; c=d instead of 3 separate cookies. This has security implications because if, say, JSESSIONID is an HttpOnly cookie, and the DISPLAY_LANGUAGE cookie value is rendered on the page, an attacker can smuggle the JSESSIONID cookie into the DISPLAY_LANGUAGE cookie and thereby exfiltrate it. This is significant when an intermediary is enacting some policy based on cookies, so a smuggled cookie can bypass that policy yet still be seen by the Jetty server or its logging system. This issue has been addressed in versions 9.4.51, 10.0.14, 11.0.14, and 12.0.0.beta0 and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP
by uthrasri · poc
https://github.com/uthrasri/jetty-9.4.31.v20200723_CVE-2023-26049

The repository contains source code files from Jetty 9.4.31, likely for analysis or patching purposes related to CVE-2023-26049. No functional exploit code is present, but the files provide technical context for the vulnerability.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Other
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Theoretical
Target: Eclipse Jetty 9.4.31.v20200723
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Access to Jetty server source code or environment
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

References (8)

Core 8

Scores

CVSS v3 2.4
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 61.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (10)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
debian/debian_linux 12.0
eclipse/jetty 12.0.0 alpha1 (3 CPE variants)
eclipse/jetty < 9.4.51
netapp/active_iq_unified_manager (2 CPE variants)
netapp/e-series_santricity_os_controller 11.0
netapp/e-series_santricity_unified_manager
netapp/e-series_santricity_web_services
org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server 0 - 9.4.51.v20230217Maven
Published Apr 18, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026