Eclipse Jetty's cookie parsing of quoted values can exfiltrate values from other cookies
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
Affected software
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| Platform | Package | Vulnerable versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Java / Kotlin (Maven) | org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server | < 9.4.51.v20230217, >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.14, >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.14, >= 12.0.0alpha0, < 12.0.0.beta0 | 9.4.51.v20230217, 10.0.14, 11.0.14, 12.0.0.beta0 |
References
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-p26g-97m4-6q7c
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26049
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9339
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9352
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-9.4.51.v20230217
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00039.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230526-0001
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5507
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2965
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
CWE-200- Platform
- Java / Kotlin (Maven)
- Package
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server- Disclosed
- 18.04.2023
- Updated
- 11.10.2026 13:20
Sources and licenses
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-p26g-97m4-6q7c - CC BY 4.0
Vulnerability history: org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.
- Total entries
- 29
- First → latest
- 10.2018 07.2026
- Without a fix
- 0
- Exploited in attacks
- 0
Severity breakdown
- Critical 4
- High 10
- Medium 13
- Low 2
Disclosures per year
- 2018: 8
- 2019: 5
- 2020: 2
- 2021: 3
- 2022: 3
- 2023: 2
- 2024: 1
- 2025: 1
- 2026: 4
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