ubuntu-cve-2023-36479
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-09-15 19:15
Modified
2025-10-24 05:02
Summary
Details

Eclipse Jetty Canonical Repository is the canonical repository for the Jetty project. Users of the CgiServlet with a very specific command structure may have the wrong command executed. If a user sends a request to a org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CGI Servlet for a binary with a space in its name, the servlet will escape the command by wrapping it in quotation marks. This wrapped command, plus an optional command prefix, will then be executed through a call to Runtime.exec. If the original binary name provided by the user contains a quotation mark followed by a space, the resulting command line will contain multiple tokens instead of one. This issue was patched in version 9.4.52, 10.0.16, 11.0.16 and 12.0.0-beta2.

Severity
3.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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    {
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          {
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            "binary_version": "6.1.26-1ubuntu1.2"
          },
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            "binary_version": "6.1.26-1ubuntu1.2"
          },
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            "binary_version": "6.1.26-1ubuntu1.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libjetty-java",
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          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "jetty",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/jetty@6.1.26-1ubuntu1.2?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
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        "6.1.26-1ubuntu1.1",
        "6.1.26-1ubuntu1.2"
      ]
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    {
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            "binary_name": "libjetty-extra",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libjetty-extra-java",
            "binary_version": "6.1.26-5ubuntu0.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libjetty-java",
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          }
        ]
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      "package": {
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      },
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Eclipse Jetty Canonical Repository is the canonical repository for the Jetty project. Users of the CgiServlet with a very specific command structure may have the wrong command executed. If a user sends a request to a org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CGI Servlet for a binary with a space in its name, the servlet will escape the command by wrapping it in quotation marks. This wrapped command, plus an optional command prefix, will then be executed through a call to Runtime.exec. If the original binary name provided by the user contains a quotation mark followed by a space, the resulting command line will contain multiple tokens instead of one. This issue was patched in version 9.4.52, 10.0.16, 11.0.16 and 12.0.0-beta2.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2023-36479",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T05:02:07Z",
  "published": "2023-09-15T19:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-36479"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-3gh6-v5v9-6v9j"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9516"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
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      "url": "https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9888"
    },
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      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36479"
    }
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  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-36479"
  ]
}



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