Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-2080 - Information Exposure vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
fedoraproject
eclipse
CWE-200
nessus

Summary

The exception handling code in Eclipse Jetty before 9.2.9.v20150224 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via illegal characters in an HTTP header, aka JetLeak.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Subverting Environment Variable Values
    The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
  • Footprinting
    An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
  • Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
  • Browser Fingerprinting
    An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Nessus

  • NASL familyWeb Servers
    NASL idJETTY_CVE-2015-2080.NASL
    descriptionThe remote instance of Jetty is affected by a remote memory disclosure vulnerability in the HttpParser module due to incorrect handling of illegal characters in header values. When an illegal character is encountered in an HTTP request, Jetty writes a response in a shared buffer that was used in a previous request. Jetty
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id81576
    published2015-02-27
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/81576
    titleJetty HttpParser Error Remote Memory Disclosure
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(81576);
      script_version("1.7");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/26");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2080");
      script_bugtraq_id(72768);
    
      script_name(english:"Jetty HttpParser Error Remote Memory Disclosure");
      script_summary(english:"Checks for a remote memory disclosure flaw.");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
    "The remote web server is affected by a remote memory disclosure
    vulnerability.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
    "The remote instance of Jetty is affected by a remote memory disclosure
    vulnerability in the HttpParser module due to incorrect handling of
    illegal characters in header values. When an illegal character is
    encountered in an HTTP request, Jetty writes a response in a shared
    buffer that was used in a previous request. Jetty's response to the
    client includes this shared buffer which contains potentially
    sensitive data from the previous request. An attacker, using specially
    crafted requests containing variable length strings of illegal
    characters, can steal sensitive header data (e.g. cookies,
    authentication tokens) or sensitive POST data (e.g. credentials).");
      # https://blog.gdssecurity.com/labs/2015/2/25/jetleak-vulnerability-remote-leakage-of-shared-buffers-in-je.html
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b8e07913");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=460642");
      # https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/jetty-9.2.x/advisories/2015-02-24-httpparser-error-buffer-bleed.md
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f918c477");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
    "Upgrade to Jetty 9.2.9.v20150224 or later. For Jetty 9.3.x, contact
    the vendor for a solution.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2015-2080");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/02/24");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/02/24");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/02/27");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:mortbay:jetty");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
      script_family(english:"Web Servers");
    
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
    
      script_dependencies("http_version.nasl");
      script_require_ports("Services/www", 8080);
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("misc_func.inc");
    include("audit.inc");
    include("http.inc");
    include("data_protection.inc");
    
    port = get_http_port(default: 8080);
    
    # Unless we're paranoid, make sure the banner looks like Jetty.
    if (report_paranoia < 2)
    {
      banner = get_http_banner(port:port);
      if (isnull(banner) || "Server: Jetty(" >!< banner)
        audit(AUDIT_WRONG_WEB_SERVER, port, "Jetty");
    }
    
    response = http_send_recv3(
      method: "GET",
      item:"/",
      port:port,
      add_headers: make_array("Nessus-Header", '\x00')
    );
    
    if (isnull(response))
      audit(AUDIT_RESP_NOT, port, "HTTP GET");
    
    if ("Illegal character 0x0 in state" >!< response[0])
      audit(AUDIT_LISTEN_NOT_VULN, "web server", port);
    
    request = http_last_sent_request();
    
    request =  str_replace(string:request, find:'\x00', replace:"\x00", count:1);
    
    security_report_v4(
      port        : port,
      severity    : SECURITY_WARNING,
      generic     : TRUE,
      line_limit  : 5,
      request     : make_list(request),
      output      : data_protection::sanitize_user_full_redaction(output:chomp(response[0]))
    );
    
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2015-2673.NASL
    descriptionRebase to upstream version 9.2.9, resolves CVE-2015-2080 security vulnerability. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2015-03-17
    plugin id81841
    published2015-03-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/81841
    titleFedora 22 : jetty-9.2.9-1.fc22 (2015-2673)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2015-2673.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(81841);
      script_version("1.4");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2080");
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2015-2673");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 22 : jetty-9.2.9-1.fc22 (2015-2673)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Rebase to upstream version 9.2.9, resolves CVE-2015-2080 security
    vulnerability.
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
    has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
    without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196254"
      );
      # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151804.html
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?44a1ecbc"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected jetty package.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:jetty");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/02/26");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/03/17");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
      script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
    if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
    os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! ereg(pattern:"^22([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 22.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"FC22", reference:"jetty-9.2.9-1.fc22")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "jetty");
    }
    

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