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GHSA-p26g-97m4-6q7c

GitHub Security Advisory

Eclipse Jetty's cookie parsing of quoted values can exfiltrate values from other cookies

✓ GitHub Reviewed LOW Has CVE

Advisory Details

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.

### Impact
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.

### Patches
* 9.4.51.v20230217 - via PR #9352
* 10.0.15 - via PR #9339
* 11.0.15 - via PR #9339

### Workarounds
No workarounds

### References
* https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2965
* https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265

Affected Packages

Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 9.4.51.v20230217)
Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Affected versions: 10.0.0 (fixed in 10.0.14)
Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Affected versions: 11.0.0 (fixed in 11.0.14)
Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Affected versions: 12.0.0alpha0 (fixed in 12.0.0.beta0)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-p26g-97m4-6q7c
Published
April 18, 2023 10:19 PM
Last Modified
April 18, 2023 10:19 PM
CVSS Score
2.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 12, 2025 6:29 AM

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