Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Jetty, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting attacks and potentially hijack a user session.
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TITLE:
Jetty Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27925
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27925/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Hijacking
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Jetty 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/13426/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Jetty, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct HTTP response splitting and
cross-site scripting attacks and potentially hijack a user session.
1) Input passed to unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised
before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to insert
arbitrary HTTP headers, which will be included in a response to the
user.
2) Input passed to unspecified parameters in the Jetty Dump Servlet
is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can
be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.
3) An error exists in the handling of cookies with certain quote
sequences, which can potentially facilitate to hijack a user
session.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 6.1.6.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.1.6.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tomasz Kuczynski, reported via US-CERT.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Jetty:
http://svn.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty/trunk/VERSION.txt
US-CERT VU#212984:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/212984
US-CERT VU#237888:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/237888
US-CERT VU#438616:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/438616
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