CVE-2009-4611
mortbay jetty: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.mortbay.jetty:jetty 6.1.23, 7.0.2.
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.
- EPSS
- 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mortbay:jetty
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-6jxp-7g74-2rc3 | Maven | org.mortbay.jetty:jetty | >=6.0.0 <6.1.23 | 6.1.23 |
| GHSA-6jxp-7g74-2rc3 | Maven | org.mortbay.jetty:jetty | >=7.0.0 <7.0.2 | 7.0.2 |