CVE-2023-36479

Aliases:GHSA-3gh6-v5v9-6v9jDEBIAN-CVE-2023-36479CGA-4925-gm4c-9gpcCGA-722g-3r2m-3r2vCGA-7r4r-rj6r-q547CGA-82m9-mf4f-4qm4CGA-gp3w-cmgg-7xhfCGA-hpgg-hj4v-w4q6CGA-jj64-f3mh-9mp8CGA-mcvm-rpxg-wj7jCGA-q5r4-59gj-h54pCGA-r28r-g4hx-5rrrCGA-rp7r-cjg3-3gpfCGA-v8gg-8vvw-pjhvCGA-whcc-m369-qpfwCGA-x2v6-3mm3-5qcr
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 7
Analyzed
Published: 15 Sept 2023, 18:37
Last modified:18 Jun 2025, 14:41

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
24/100
CVSS Score
3.5 LOW
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
1.16% LOW
1% probability -0.22%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

15 Sept 2023, 18:37
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
18 Jun 2025, 14:41
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•LOW•Score: 3.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • v3.1•LOW•Score: 3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.16%• Percentile: 66%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-149•Improper Neutralization of Quoting Syntax

    Quotes injected into a product can be used to compromise a system. As data are parsed, an injected/absent/duplicate/malformed use of quotes may cause the process to take unexpected actions.

Affected Systems

  • chainguard•apache-hop

    < 2.15.0-r2

  • chainguard•apache-hop-fips

    < 2.15.0-r2

  • chainguard•cassandra-reaper

    < 4.0.1-r1

  • chainguard•cloudwatch-exporter

    < 0.15.4-r3

  • chainguard•hadoop-fips-3.3.6

    all

  • chainguard•hadoop-fips-3.4.2

    all

  • chainguard•hadoop-fips-3.5

    all

  • wolfi•cassandra-reaper

    < 4.0.1-r1

  • wolfi•cloudwatch-exporter

    < 0.15.4-r3

  • debian•jetty9

    < 9.4.39-3+deb11u2 | < 9.4.50-4+deb12u1 | < 9.4.52-1 | < 9.4.52-1

  • debian•debian_linux

    10.0 | 11.0 | 12.0

  • eclipse•jetty

    ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.4.52 | ≥ 10.0.0, < 10.0.16 | ≥ 11.0.0, < 11.0.16 | 12.0.0:alpha1 | 12.0.0:alpha2 | 12.0.0:alpha3 | 12.0.0:beta0 | 12.0.0:beta1

  • eclipse•jetty.project

    ≥ 9.0.0, ≤ 9.4.51 | ≥ 10.0.0, ≤ 10.0.15 | ≥ 11.0.0, ≤ 11.0.15 | ≤ 12.0.0-beta1

  • org.eclipse.jetty•jetty-servlets

    ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.4.52 | ≥ 10.0.0, < 10.0.16 | ≥ 11.0.0, < 11.0.16

  • org.eclipse.jetty.ee10•jetty-ee10-servlets

    < 12.0.0-beta2

  • org.eclipse.jetty.ee8•jetty-ee8-servlets

    < 12.0.0-beta2

  • org.eclipse.jetty.ee9•jetty-ee9-servlets

    < 12.0.0-beta2

References (10)