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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2019-17632 json

Unescaped exception messages in error responses in Jetty

published 2019-11-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-5h9j-q6j2-253f , EUVD-2019-0779

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.21.v20190926, 9.4.22.v20191022, and 9.4.23.v20191118, the generation of default unhandled Error response content (in text/html and text/json Content-Type) does not escape Exception messages in stacktraces included in error output.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server 9.4.24.v20191120
  • jetty9 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 9.4.26-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17632

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-17632 updated cvss 6.1

jetty: generation of default unhandled error response content does not escape exception messages in stacktraces included in error output

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jetty Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 jetty Red Hat Satellite 5 nutch
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 jetty-eclipse Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jetty-io, jetty-ant, jetty-jmx, jetty-jsp, jetty-xml, jetty-http, +30 more Red Hat Fuse 7 jetty Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 jetty Red Hat Software Collections rh-java-common-jetty-io, rh-java-common-jetty-ant, rh-java-common-jetty-jmx, rh-java-common-jetty-jsp, rh-java-common-jetty-xml, rh-java-common-jetty-http, +30 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
>=9.4.21.v20190926, <9.4.24.v20191120
>=9.4.22.v20191022, <9.4.24.v20191120
>=9.4.23.v20191118, <9.4.24.v20191120
9.4.24.v20191120

Affected products

  • The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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