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.
Remediation
References
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-jetty6x7x/jetty-adv.txt
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded
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