CVE-2023-26049 (GCVE-0-2023-26049)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-18 20:35 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:44
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Cookie parsing of quoted values can exfiltrate values from other cookies in Eclipse Jetty
Summary
Jetty is a java based web server and servlet engine. Nonstandard cookie parsing in Jetty may allow an attacker to smuggle cookies within other cookies, or otherwise perform unintended behavior by tampering with the cookie parsing mechanism. If Jetty sees a cookie VALUE that starts with `"` (double quote), it will continue to read the cookie string until it sees a closing quote -- even if a semicolon is encountered. So, a cookie header such as: `DISPLAY_LANGUAGE="b; JSESSIONID=1337; c=d"` will be parsed as one cookie, with the name DISPLAY_LANGUAGE and a value of b; JSESSIONID=1337; c=d instead of 3 separate cookies. This has security implications because if, say, JSESSIONID is an HttpOnly cookie, and the DISPLAY_LANGUAGE cookie value is rendered on the page, an attacker can smuggle the JSESSIONID cookie into the DISPLAY_LANGUAGE cookie and thereby exfiltrate it. This is significant when an intermediary is enacting some policy based on cookies, so a smuggled cookie can bypass that policy yet still be seen by the Jetty server or its logging system. This issue has been addressed in versions 9.4.51, 10.0.14, 11.0.14, and 12.0.0.beta0 and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Severity
CWE
- CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Assigner
References
8 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9339 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9352 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2965 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023052… | |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5507 | |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023… |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eclipse | jetty.project |
Affected:
< 9.4.51
Affected: >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.14 Affected: >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.14 Affected: >= 12.0.0.alpha0, < 12.0.0.beta0 |
guessed |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.