CVE-2007-5614: Improper Authentication in Mortbay Jetty

May 1, 2022 (updated June 8, 2022)

Mortbay Jetty before 6.1.6rc1 does not properly handle “certain quote sequences” in HTML cookie parameters, which allows remote attackers to hijack browser sessions via unspecified vectors.

References

www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/438616
github.com/advisories/GHSA-fvh3-4v5r-cvvc
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5614
www.eclipse.org/jetty/about.php
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00227.html
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00250.html

Code Behaviors & Features

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