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CVE-2023-36479

Jetty vulnerable to errant command quoting in CGI Servlet

Published: Sep 15, 2023Updated: May 27, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-149
NVD MITRE
3.5CVSSLOW
EPSS Score
1.0%
Top 41.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:HPR:LUI:NS:CC:NI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-149NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

jettyeclipseDevTools & CI
debian linuxdebian
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servletsMavenOSS Libraries
org.eclipse.jetty.ee10:jetty-ee10-servletsMavenOSS Libraries
org.eclipse.jetty.ee9:jetty-ee9-servletsMavenOSS Libraries
eclipseoss-projectBEDevTools & CIaka eclipse-foundation
debianoss-projectGBOperating Systemsaka debian gnu/linux
mavenpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries
and 5 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9516
github.com
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9888
github.com
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9889
github.com
and 11 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Sep 15, 2023
Last Updated
May 27, 2025

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