Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-36479

LowPublic PoC

Published: 15 September 2023

Published
15 September 2023
Modified
27 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 3.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0138 80.7th percentile
Risk Priority 8 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-36479 is a low-severity Improper Neutralization of Quoting Syntax (CWE-149) vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).

Operationally, ranked in the top 19.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Eclipse Jetty Canonical Repository is the canonical repository for the Jetty project. Users of the CgiServlet with a very specific command structure may have the wrong command executed. If a user sends a request to a org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CGI Servlet for a…

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binary with a space in its name, the servlet will escape the command by wrapping it in quotation marks. This wrapped command, plus an optional command prefix, will then be executed through a call to Runtime.exec. If the original binary name provided by the user contains a quotation mark followed by a space, the resulting command line will contain multiple tokens instead of one. This issue was patched in version 9.4.52, 10.0.16, 11.0.16 and 12.0.0-beta2.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

eclipse
jetty
12.0.0 · 9.0.0 — 9.4.52 · 10.0.0 — 10.0.16 · 11.0.0 — 11.0.16
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0, 12.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References