Cross-site scripting in Jetty - CVE-2019-17632
Published: February 13, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU25334
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17632
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when displaying error message. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Jetty
Apache Avro
Fedora
StreamSets Data Collector
jetty
Apache Avro
Fedora
StreamSets Data Collector
jetty
How to mitigate CVE-2019-17632
Install updates from vendor's website.
Jetty - update to 9.4.24.v20191120
Apache Avro - update to 1.9.2
StreamSets Data Collector - update to 7.0.0
jetty - update to 9.4.24-2.v20191120.fc31
Apache Avro - update to 1.9.2
StreamSets Data Collector - update to 7.0.0
jetty - update to 9.4.24-2.v20191120.fc31