jetty: escape sequence injection to stack traces
Published Jan 13, 2010
7.3
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.25%
Description
Mort Bay Jetty 6.x through 6.1.22 and 7.0.0 writes backtrace data without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator, related to (1) a string value in the Age parameter to the default URI for the Cookie Dump Servlet in test-jetty-webapp/src/main/java/com/acme/CookieDump.java under cookie/, (2) an alphabetic value in the A parameter to jsp/expr.jsp, or (3) an alphabetic value in the Content-Length HTTP header to an arbitrary application.
Affected products
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- 6.0.0
- 6.0.0
- 6.0.0
- 6.0.0
- 6.0.0
- 6.0.0
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- 6.0.0
- 6.0.0
- 6.0.0
- 6.0.0
- 6.0.1
- 6.0.2
- 6.1.0
- 6.1.0
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- 6.1.14
- 6.1.15
- 6.1.15
- 6.1.15
- 6.1.15
- 6.1.15
- 6.1.15
- 6.1.16
- 6.1.19
- 6.1.20
- 7.0.0
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.25% (0.03245) | 87.89th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.16% (0.03157) | 86.26th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.66% (0.00664) | 69.50th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.12% (0.01121) | 85.26th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 1.12% (0.01121) | 84.15th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.77% (0.00768) | 78.43th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.22th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 64.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 40.54th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (10)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt x_refsource_MISCExploit
- http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt x_refsource_MISCExploit
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-4611 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532675 Issue Tracking
- https://fossies.org/linux/jetty-distribution/VERSION.txt
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jxp-7g74-2rc3 Advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4611
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4611
- https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/about.php
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt | x_refsource_MISCExploit | |
| http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt | x_refsource_MISCExploit | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-4611 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532675 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://fossies.org/linux/jetty-distribution/VERSION.txt | ||
| https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jxp-7g74-2rc3 | Advisory | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4611 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4611 | ||
| https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/about.php |
Change history (0)
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