Mortbay Jetty fails to properly handle cookies with quotes

Overview

Mortbay Jetty fails to properly handle cookie quotes, which may allow session hijacking.

Description

Mortbay Jetty is a web server that is written in Java. Jetty fails to properly handle cookies with certain quote sequences. This can cause the Jetty cookie parsing mechanism to improperly handle all of the cookies in the cookie string that follow the cookie with the quote sequence.

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Impact

This vulnerability can increase the possibility of a session hijacking success. In the presense of a cross-site scripting vulnerability, it may allow a denial-of-service attack against a web site by preventing a client from being able to log in using cookies.

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Solution

Apply an update

This issue is addressed in Mortbay Jetty 6.1.6. Details are available in the release notes.

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Vendor Information

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Notified: October 26, 2007 Updated: December 04, 2007

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

This issue is addressed in Mortbay Jetty 6.1.6.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23438616 Feedback>).

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References

• <http://svn.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty/trunk/VERSION.txt&gt;
• <http://dist.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-6.1.6/&gt;

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2007-5614
Severity Metric:	2.78 Date Public: