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SCA: security update for org.mortbay.jetty:jetty (GHSA-6jxp-7g74-2rc3)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411510

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2009-4611)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jxp-7g74-2rc3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411510

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-4611

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4611

BID: 37929

cwe: CWE-20