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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Advisories 2
- DSA-4278-1 jetty9 - security update Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026
- WID-SEC-2022-1375 JFrog Artifactory: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Oct 12, 2025
References
- DSA-4278 vendor-advisory
- 1041194 vdb-entry
- [lucene-solr-user] 20190104 Re: SOLR v7 Security Issues Caused Denial of Use - Sonatype Application Composition Report mailing-list
- RHSA-2019:0910 vendor-advisory
- [activemq-issues] 20190820 [jira] [Created] (AMQ-7279) Security Vulnerabilities in Libraries - jackson-databind-2.9.8.jar, tomcat-servlet-api-8.0.53.jar, tomcat-websocket-api-8.0.53.jar, zookeeper-3.4.6.jar, guava-18.0.jar, jetty-all-9.2.26.v20180806 mailing-list
- [druid-commits] 20191115 [GitHub] [incubator-druid] ccaominh opened a new pull request #8878: Address security vulnerabilities mailing-list
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20200729 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2387: Security vulnerabilities in the apache/bookkeeper-4.9.2 image mailing-list
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181014-0001/
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03953en_us
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=535668
- [druid-commits] 20210226 [GitHub] [druid] kingnj opened a new issue #10926: Hello, are there any plans to fix the CVE-2017-7657 and CVE-2017-7658 vulnerabilities of Jetty mailing-list
- [druid-commits] 20210304 [GitHub] [druid] suneet-s commented on issue #10926: Hello, are there any plans to fix the CVE-2017-7657 and CVE-2017-7658 vulnerabilities of Jetty mailing-list
- [druid-commits] 20210304 [GitHub] [druid] suneet-s closed issue #10926: Hello, are there any plans to fix the CVE-2017-7657 and CVE-2017-7658 vulnerabilities of Jetty mailing-list
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html