Advisories for Maven/Org.eclipse.jetty/Jetty-Deploy package

2023

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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. …

2021