CVE-2017-7657
In Eclipse Jetty, versions 9.2.x and older, 9.3.x (all configurations), and 9.4.x (non-default configuration with RFC2616 compliance enabled), transfer-encoding chunks are handled poorly. The chunk length parsing was vulnerable to an integer overflow. Thus a large chunk size could be interpreted as a smaller chunk size and content sent as chunk body could be interpreted as a pipelined request. If Jetty was deployed behind an intermediary that imposed some authorization and that intermediary allowed arbitrarily large chunks to be passed on unchanged, then this flaw could be used to bypass the authorization imposed by the intermediary as the fake pipelined request would not be interpreted by the intermediary as a request.
EPSS 4.32% · 89.1th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | jetty8 | 0, 8.1.3-9, 8.1.3-8 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | jetty8 | 8.1.18-2, 8.1.17-2, 8.1.18-3 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | jetty9 | 0, 9.2.14-1 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | jetty9 | 9.2.23-1, 9.2.22-3, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- Multiple HTTP Smuggling reports (hackerone)
- Multiple HTTP Smuggling reports (hackerone)
- Multiple HTTP Smuggling reports (hackerone)
- druid-612f0710.json (github-poc)
- owasp-exclude.xml (github-poc)
- druid-612f0710.json (github-poc)
- druid-612f0710.json (github-poc)
- druid-612f0710.json (github-poc)
- druid-612f0710.json (github-poc)
- druid-612f0710.json (github-poc)
…and 9 more exploits
Timeline
- CVE Published
- Nov 12, 2019 PoC Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 17, 2025 EPSS Score
- Mar 21, 2025 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2025 EPSS Score
- Apr 6, 2025 EPSS Score
- Apr 9, 2025 EPSS Score
- Apr 10, 2025 EPSS Score
- Apr 12, 2025 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7657 third-party-advisory
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=535668 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7657 third-party-advisory