Jetty is a java based web server and servlet engine. Nonstandard cookie parsing in Jetty may allow an attacker to smuggle cookies within other cookies, or otherwise perform unintended behavior by tampering with the cookie parsing mechanism. If Jetty sees a cookie VALUE that starts with `"` (double quote), it will continue to read the cookie string until it sees a closing quote -- even if a semicolon is encountered. So, a cookie header such as: `DISPLAY_LANGUAGE="b; JSESSIONID=1337; c=d"` will be parsed as one cookie, with the name DISPLAY_LANGUAGE and a value of b; JSESSIONID=1337; c=d instead of 3 separate cookies. This has security implications because if, say, JSESSIONID is an HttpOnly cookie, and the DISPLAY_LANGUAGE cookie value is rendered on the page, an attacker can smuggle the JSESSIONID cookie into the DISPLAY_LANGUAGE cookie and thereby exfiltrate it. This is significant when an intermediary is enacting some policy based on cookies, so a smuggled cookie can bypass that policy yet still be seen by the Jetty server or its logging system. This issue has been addressed in versions 9.4.51, 10.0.14, 11.0.14, and 12.0.0.beta0 and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 2.4
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade jetty9 | Oct 2, 2023 | Apr 18, 2023 |
| Red Hat Jboss Eap | — | Upgrade Red Hat JBoss EAP to the latest version | Sep 19, 2024 | Apr 18, 2023 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Apr 18, 2023 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade jetty-clientUpgrade jetty-ioUpgrade jetty-antUpgrade jetty-jspUpgrade jetty-servletUpgrade jetty-cdiUpgrade jetty-plusUpgrade jetty-rewriteUpgrade jetty-fcgiUpgrade jetty-openidUpgrade jetty-jaasUpgrade jetty-securityUpgrade jetty-minimal-javadocUpgrade jetty-httpUpgrade jetty-deployUpgrade jetty-annotationsUpgrade jetty-proxyUpgrade jetty-webappUpgrade jetty-util-ajaxUpgrade jetty-startUpgrade jetty-xmlUpgrade jetty-continuationUpgrade jetty-utilUpgrade jetty-jmxUpgrade jetty-servletsUpgrade jetty-serverUpgrade jetty-quickstartUpgrade jetty-http-spiUpgrade jetty-jndi | Jun 20, 2023 | Apr 18, 2023 |
| Ubuntu | — | No solution exists | Jun 26, 2025 | Apr 18, 2023 |
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