[jetty] URI parsing of invalid authority

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Basic information

Project name: jetty

Project id: rt/jetty

Request type: reservation

Versions affected:

org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-http : >=7.0.0, <=12.0.11

Common Weakness Enumeration:

• CWE-1286 - Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input

Common Vulnerability Scoring System: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Summary:

The Jetty HttpURI class does insufficient validation on the authority segment of a URI, resulting in bad Host name identification.

Links:

https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-qh8g-58pp-2wxh

Tracking

This section will completed by the project team.

• Reserve an entry only
• We're ready for this issue to be reported to the central authority (i.e., make this public now)
• (when applicable) The GitHub Security Advisory is ready to be published now

Note that for those projects that host their repositories on GitHub, the use of GitHub Security Advisories is recommended but is not required.

This section will be completed by the EMO.

CVE: {cve}

• All required information is provided
• CVE Assigned
• Pushed to Mitre
• Accepted by Mitre