Low severity · published Sep 15, 2023
CVE-2023-36479
Eclipse Jetty Canonical Repository is the canonical repository for the Jetty project
3.1
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 67% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 11.0; 12.0 · source: NVD
JE
Jetty · Eclipse
9.0.0 before 9.4.52; 10.0.0 before 10.0.16; 11.0.0 before 11.0.16; 12.0.0; 12.0.0; 12.0.0; +2 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36479
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36479
Patch
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9516
Patch
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9888
Patch
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9889
Exploit
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-3gh6-v5v9-6v9j
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00039.html
Mailing List
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5507
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