Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-2381 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in Jetty

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
jetty
nessus
NVD
Published: 2004-12-31
Updated: 2017-07-11

Summary

HttpRequest.java in Jetty HTTP Server before 4.2.19 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service (memory usage and application crash) via HTTP requests with a large Content-Length.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Jetty
67

Nessus

NASL familyWeb Servers
NASL idJETTY_4_1_9_DOS.NASL
descriptionAccording to its banner, the remote host is running a version of Jetty that is older than 4.2.19. The version is vulnerable to a unspecified denial of service.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id17348
published2005-03-17
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Westpoint Limited
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17348
titleJetty < 4.2.19 HTTP Server HttpRequest.java Content-Length Handling Remote Overflow DoS
code
#
# Sarju Bhagat <[email protected]>
#
# GPLv2
#

# Changes by Tenable:
# - added CVE xrefs.
# - revised plugin title, changed family (6/17/09)

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
 script_id(17348);
 script_version("1.19");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/12");

 script_cve_id("CVE-2004-2381");
 script_bugtraq_id(9917);

 script_name(english:"Jetty < 4.2.19 HTTP Server HttpRequest.java Content-Length Handling Remote Overflow DoS");
 script_summary(english:"Checks for the version of Jetty");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server is prone to a denial of service attack.");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its banner, the remote host is running a version of Jetty
that is older than 4.2.19.  The version is vulnerable to a unspecified
denial of service.");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=224743");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade to version 4.2.19 or later.");
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
 script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/03/17");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2004/03/19");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:mortbay:jetty");
 script_end_attributes();

 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2020 Westpoint Limited");
 script_family(english:"Web Servers");

 script_dependencie("http_version.nasl");
 script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("http_func.inc");

port = get_http_port(default:80, embedded:TRUE);

if(get_port_state(port))
{
 banner = get_http_banner(port:port);
 if(!banner || "Jetty/" >!< banner )exit(0);

 serv = strstr(banner, "Server");
 if(ereg(pattern:"Jetty/4\.([01]\.|2\.([0-9][^0-9]|1[0-8]))", string:serv))
 {
   security_warning(port);
   exit(0);
 }
}

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