Indexing/Listing Vulnerability in Jetty

If you are using DefaultServlet or ResourceHandler with indexing/listing, then you are vulnerable to a variant of XSS behaviors surrounding the use of injected HTML element attributes on the parent directory link. We recommend disabling indexing/listing or upgrading to a non-vulnerable version. To disable indexing/listing: If using the DefaultServlet (provided Read more…

Jetty, Cookies and RFC6265 Compliance

Starting with patch 9.4.3, Jetty will be fully compliant with RFC6265, which presents changes to cookies which may have significant impact for some users. Up until now Jetty has supported Version=1 cookies defined in RFC2109 (and continued in RFC2965) which allows for special/reserved characters (control, separator, et al) to be enclosed within double Read more…