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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2017-7657 EUVD-2018-0696GHSA-vgg8-72f2-qm23

Critical severity vulnerability that affects org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server

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), transfer-encoding chunks are handled poorly. The chunk length parsing was vulnerable to an integer overflow. Thus a large chunk size could be interpreted as a smaller chunk size and content sent as chunk body could be interpreted as a pipelined request. If Jetty was deployed behind an intermediary that imposed some authorization and that intermediary allowed arbitrarily large chunks to be passed on unchanged, then this flaw could be used to bypass the authorization imposed by the intermediary as the fake pipelined request would not be interpreted by the intermediary as a request.

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 < 9.2.25.v20180606 9.2.25.v20180606 GHSA-vgg8-72f2-qm23
Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server >= 9.3.0, < 9.3.24.v20180605 9.3.24.v20180605 GHSA-vgg8-72f2-qm23

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