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High · 7.5 CVE-2017-7656 EUVD-2018-0544GHSA-84q7-p226-4x5w

Jetty vulnerable to cache poisoning due to inconsistent HTTP request handling (HTTP Request Smuggling)

Published Jun 26, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by eclipse

Description

In Eclipse Jetty, versions 9.2.x and older, 9.3.x (all configurations), and 9.4.x (non-default configuration with RFC2616 compliance enabled), HTTP/0.9 is handled poorly. An HTTP/1 style request line (i.e. method space URI space version) that declares a version of HTTP/0.9 was accepted and treated as a 0.9 request. If deployed behind an intermediary that also accepted and passed through the 0.9 version (but did not act on it), then the response sent could be interpreted by the intermediary as HTTP/1 headers. This could be used to poison the cache if the server allowed the origin client to generate arbitrary content in the response.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty unspecified – ≤ 9.2.0, 9.3.0 – < unspecified, unspecified – < 9.3.24, 9.4.0 – < unspecified, unspecified – < 9.4.11 unspecified

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 jetty9 9.2.25-1 —
Debian 13 jetty9 9.2.25-1 —
Debian 12 jetty9 9.2.25-1 —
Debian 9 jetty9 9.2.21-1+deb9u1 DSA-4278-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS jetty9 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS jetty8 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS jetty8 No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server < 9.3.24.v20180605 9.3.24.v20180605 GHSA-84q7-p226-4x5w
Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server >= 9.4.0, < 9.4.11.v20180605 9.4.11.v20180605 GHSA-84q7-p226-4x5w

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