CVE-2021-28164
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
1.0
Description
Authorization Before Parsing and Canonicalization in jetty
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Jetty 9.4.37.v20210219 - Information Disclosure
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
Metasploit modules
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 9.4.39-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 9.4.39-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 9.4.39-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 9.4.39-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 9.4.39-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-webapp | >=9.4.37,<9.4.39 | 9.4.39 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28164.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-28164
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-v7ff-8wcx-gmc5
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28164
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210611-0006
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd7c8fb305a8637480dc943ba08424c8992dccad018cd1405eb2afe0e@%3Cdev.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0471252aeb3384c3cfa6d131374646d4641b80dd313e7b476c47a9c@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcea249eb7a0d243f21696e4985de33f3780399bf7b31ea1f6d489b8b@%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbc075a4ac85e7a8e47420b7383f16ffa0af3b792b8423584735f369f@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9974f64723875052e02787b2a5eda689ac5247c71b827d455e5dc9a6@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r90e7b4c42a96d74c219e448bee6a329ab0cd3205c44b63471d96c3ab@%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8e6c116628c1277c3cf132012a66c46a0863fa2a3037c0707d4640d4@%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7dd079fa0ac6f47ba1ad0af98d7d0276547b8a4e005f034fb1016951@%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r780c3c210a05c5bf7b4671303f46afc3fe56758e92864e1a5f0590d0@%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r763840320a80e515331cbc1e613fa93f25faf62e991974171a325c82@%3Cdev.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6ac9e263129328c0db9940d72b4a6062e703c58918dd34bd22cdf8dd@%3Cissues.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5b3693da7ecb8a75c0e930b4ca26a5f97aa0207d9dae4aa8cc65fe6b@%3Cissues.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4b1fef117bccc7f5fd4c45fd2cabc26838df823fe5ca94bc42a4fd46@%3Cissues.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4a66bfbf62281e31bc1345ebecbfd96f35199eecd77bfe4e903e906f@%3Cissues.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3c55b0baa4dc38958ae147b2f216e212605f1071297f845e14477d36@%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2ea2f0541121f17e470a0184843720046c59d4bde6d42bf5ca6fad81@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2a3ea27cca2ac7352d392b023b72e824387bc9ff16ba245ec663bdc6@%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.