Mortbay Jetty vulnerable to HTTP response splitting

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.

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Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to perform a cross-site scripting attack, set cookies, or poison a proxy cache.

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Solution

Apply an update

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

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Notified: October 26, 2007 Updated: December 04, 2007

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

This issue is addressed in Mortbay Jetty 6.1.6.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23212984 Feedback>).

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References

• <http://svn.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty/trunk/VERSION.txt&gt;
• <http://dist.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-6.1.6/&gt;

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: