National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-4611

Overview

Mort Bay Jetty 6.x 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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20100110 Nginx, Varnish, Cherokee, thttpd, mini-httpd, WEBrick, Orion, AOLserver, Yaws and Boa log escape sequence injection

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded