Jetty Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA28322
Release Date: 2008-01-04
Last Update: 2008-01-17
Popularity: 5,103 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Jetty 6.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-6672


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Jetty, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of multiple "/" characters in an URL and can be exploited to access private files and directories.

The vulnerability is reported in version 6.1.5 and 6.1.6.

Solution:
Update to version 6.1.7.
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Downloading+and+Installing

Provided and/or discovered by:
Greg Wilkins, reported via US-CERT.

Changelog:
2008-01-17: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
US-CERT VU#553235:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/553235

Jetty:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-386#action_117699


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