TITLE:
Jetty JSP Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17659

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17659/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Jetty 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/6169/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Jetty, which can be exploited by
malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in validating the request
URL. This can be exploited to disclose the source code of ".jsp" files
on the Windows platform by appending an URL encoded backslash ("%5C")
at the end of the file extension of the requested ".jsp" file.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 5.1.5. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.1.6.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7322&package_id=132252

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=372086&group_id=7322

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