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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40167 (CVE-2023-40167)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-09-15 20:15 – Updated: 2025-10-24 05:02 – Source website

Details

Jetty is a Java based web server and servlet engine. Prior to versions 9.4.52, 10.0.16, 11.0.16, and 12.0.1, Jetty accepts the + character proceeding the content-length value in a HTTP/1 header field. This is more permissive than allowed by the RFC and other servers routinely reject such requests with 400 responses. There is no known exploit scenario, but it is conceivable that request smuggling could result if jetty is used in combination with a server that does not close the connection after sending such a 400 response. Versions 9.4.52, 10.0.16, 11.0.16, and 12.0.1 contain a patch for this issue. There is no workaround as there is no known exploit scenario.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

5.3 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-40167	REPORT
	https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40167	REPORT

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CVE-2023-40167 (GCVE-0-2023-40167)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-15 19:37 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:03

Title

Jetty accepts "+" prefixed value in Content-Length

Summary

Jetty is a Java based web server and servlet engine. Prior to versions 9.4.52, 10.0.16, 11.0.16, and 12.0.1, Jetty accepts the `+` character proceeding the content-length value in a HTTP/1 header field. This is more permissive than allowed by the RFC and other servers routinely reject such requests with 400 responses. There is no known exploit scenario, but it is conceivable that request smuggling could result if jetty is used in combination with a server that does not close the connection after sending such a 400 response. Versions 9.4.52, 10.0.16, 11.0.16, and 12.0.1 contain a patch for this issue. There is no workaround as there is no known exploit scenario.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-25 18:49 UTC

CWE

CWE-130 - Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#section-8.6	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5507
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
eclipse	jetty.project	Affected: >= 9.0.0, <= 9.4.51 Affected: >= 10.0.0, <= 10.0.15 Affected: >= 11.0.0, <= 11.0.15 Affected: = 12.0.0

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