🛡️ CVE-2007-5614 — jetty

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Improper Authentication in Mortbay Jetty

Mortbay Jetty before 6.1.6rc1 does not properly handle "certain quote sequences" in HTML cookie parameters, which allows remote attackers to hijack browser sessions via unspecified vectors.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2007-5614 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2007-5614 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.mortbay.jetty:jetty (fixed in 6.1.6)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 May 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
www.eclipse.org (Web)
www.redhat.com (Web)
www.redhat.com (Web)
www.kb.cert.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-01
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.mortbay.jetty:jetty 6.1.6

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