CVE-2023-36479
Jetty vulnerable to errant command quoting in CGI Servlet
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 3.5 Low
- Published
- Sep 15, 2023
- Updated
- Jun 18, 2025
- Reserved
- Jun 21, 2023
Description
Eclipse Jetty Canonical Repository is the canonical repository for the Jetty project. Users of the CgiServlet with a very specific command structure may have the wrong command executed. If a user sends a request to a org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CGI Servlet for a binary with a space in its name, the servlet will escape the command by wrapping it in quotation marks. This wrapped command, plus an optional command prefix, will then be executed through a call to Runtime.exec. If the original binary name provided by the user contains a quotation mark followed by a space, the resulting command line will contain multiple tokens instead of one. This issue was patched in version 9.4.52, 10.0.16, 11.0.16 and 12.0.0-beta2.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 3.5 Low | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-149 Improper Neutralization of Quoting Syntax
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
jetty.projecteclipse |
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References
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-3gh6-v5v9-6v9j
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9516
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9888
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9889
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5507
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00039.html
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