Re: Jetty 6.1.6 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

[Simon Waters <simon.waters () surevine com>]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 16:22, <1n3 () hushmail com> wrote:

> It's likely CVE-2009-1524, but the description is vague and no public PoC
> was released as far as I can tell.

The demise of the MortBay and Codehaus websites doesn't help, this isn't
the sort of forensics I expected to do.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090709110650/http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-980

Suggests semicolon after any directory listing, led to inclusion of the
text after into the document.

 echo -e "GET /cometd/dijit/;<script>alert(document.title);</script>
HTTP/1.0\n\n" | nc 127.0.0.1 8080

The patch file is also archived in the wayback machine.

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