In Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.21.v20190926, 9.4.22.v20191022, and 9.4.23.v20191118, the generation of default unhandled Error response content (in text/html and text/json Content-Type) does not escape Exception messages in stacktraces included in error output.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.21.v20190926, 9.4.22.v20191022, and 9.4.23.v20191118, the generation of     default unhandled Error response content (in text/html and text/json Content-Type) does not escape     Exception messages in stacktraces included in error output. (CVE-2019-17632)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of Jetty installed on the remote host when generating default unhandled Error response content (in text/html and text/json Content-Type) does not escape Exception messages in stacktraces included in error output. Note that the scanner has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Security fix for CVE-2019-17632

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
250400	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-17632	Nessus	Misc.	medium
113004	Jetty 9.4.21 < 9.4.24 Cross-Site Scripting	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	medium
133009	Fedora 31 : jetty (2020-4913d43d77)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2019-17632

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