CVE-2024-6763: eclipse foundation jetty

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-6763 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in eclipse foundation jetty. EPSS estimates a 0.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 14-10-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-03-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Eclipse Jetty is a lightweight, highly scalable, Java-based web server and Servlet engine . It includes a utility class, HttpURI, for URI/URL parsing. The HttpURI class does insufficient validation on the authority segment of a URI. However the behaviour of HttpURI differs from the common browsers in how it handles a URI that would be considered invalid if fully validated against the RRC. Specifically HttpURI and the browser may differ on the value of the host extracted from an invalid URI and thus a combination of Jetty and a vulnerable browser may be vulnerable to a open redirect attack or to a SSRF attack if the URI is used after passing validation checks.

• CWE-1286Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of InputThe product receives input that is expected to be well-formed - i.e., to comply with a certain syntax - but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input complies with the syntax.