Jetty Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	37929
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2009-4611
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 24 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Mar 25 2014 12:35AM
Credit:	Giovanni 'evilaliv3' Pellerano, Alessandro 'jekil' Tanasi, and Francesco 'ascii' Ongaro
Vulnerable:	Mort Bay Jetty 6.1.21 Mort Bay Jetty 6.1.17 Mort Bay Jetty 6.1.16 Mort Bay Jetty 6.1.6 Mort Bay Jetty 7.0.0.M2 Mort Bay Jetty 6.1.6 RC1 Mort Bay Jetty 6.1.6 RC0 Jetty Jetty 7.0 Jetty Jetty 6.1.17 Jetty Jetty 6.1.16 Jetty Jetty 6.1.7 Jetty Jetty 6.0.2 Jetty Jetty 7.0.0.M2 Jetty Jetty 6.1.6 Jetty Jetty 6.1.5 Jetty Jetty 6.1.4 Jetty Jetty 6.1.3 Jetty Jetty 6.1.2 Jetty Jetty 6.1.1 Jetty Jetty 6.1.0pre3 Jetty Jetty 6.1.0pre2
Not Vulnerable:

Jetty Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

Jetty is prone to a command-injection vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input in log files.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands in a terminal.

Jetty Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can exploit this issue with readily available tools.

Jetty Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Jetty Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Jetty 6.x and 7.x Multiple Vulnerabilities (Francesco "ascii" Ongaro (ascii AT ush DOT it))
  
• Jetty Homepage (Jetty)