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SCA: security update for org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server (GHSA-vgg8-72f2-qm23)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423486

Description

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

 - In Eclipse Jetty, versions 9.2.x and older, 9.3.x (all configurations), and 9.4.x (non-default
 configuration with RFC2616 compliance enabled), transfer-encoding chunks are handled poorly. The chunk
 length parsing was vulnerable to an integer overflow. Thus a large chunk size could be interpreted as a
 smaller chunk size and content sent as chunk body could be interpreted as a pipelined request. If Jetty
 was deployed behind an intermediary that imposed some authorization and that intermediary allowed
 arbitrarily large chunks to be passed on unchanged, then this flaw could be used to bypass the
 authorization imposed by the intermediary as the fake pipelined request would not be interpreted by the
 intermediary as a request. (CVE-2017-7657)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vgg8-72f2-qm23

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423486

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.92

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7657

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7657