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

2023
2021

Information Exposure

In Eclipse Jetty the default compliance mode allows requests with URIs that contain %2e or %2e%2e segments to access protected resources within the WEB-INF directory. For example a request to /context/%2e/WEB-INF/web.xml can retrieve the web.xml file. This can reveal sensitive information regarding the implementation of a web application.

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

When Jetty handles a request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of quality (i.e., q) parameters, the server may enter a denial of service (DoS) state due to high CPU usage processing those quality values, resulting in minutes of CPU time exhausted processing those quality values.

2020

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

In Eclipse Jetty on Unix like systems, the system's temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. A collocated user can observe the process of creating a temporary sub directory in the shared temporary directory and race to complete the creation of the temporary subdirectory. If the attacker wins the race then they will have read and write permission to the subdirectory used to unpack web applications, including …

2017