QID 730265

Date Published: 2021-11-22

QID 730265: Eclipse Jetty Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (Bug 573389,574146)

Eclipse Jetty is a Java HTTP server and Java Servlet container. While Web Servers are usually associated with serving documents to people, Jetty is now often used for machine to machine communications, usually within larger software frameworks.

CVE-2021-28169: ConcatServlet with a doubly encoded path to access protected resources within the WEB-INF directory.This can reveal sensitive information regarding the implementation of a web application.
CVE-2021-34428: On deployments with clustered sessions and multiple contexts this can result in a session not being invalidated.

Versions Affected:
Jetty versions prior to 9.4.41
Jetty versions from 10.0.0 to 10.0.2
Jetty versions from 11.0.0 to 11.0.2

QID Detection Logic:(Unauthenticated)
It looks at http banner to check for vulnerable version of Jetty

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to reveal sensitive information regarding the implementation of a web application.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.3 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.
    • Solution

    Customers are advised to refer to Bug 573389 and Bug 574146 for more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 730265

    CVE-2021-28169 | CVE-2021-34428 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    Bug 573389 URL Logo bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=573389
    Bug 574146 URL Logo bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=574146
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