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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2015-2080 in the critical feed json

Jetty vulnerable to exposure of sensitive information to unauthenticated remote users

published 2016-10-07 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-ghgj-3xqr-6jfm , EUVD-2018-0753

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
75.4%
EPSS 75.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server 9.2.9.v20150224

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-2080 updated cvss 5.0

jetty: remote unauthenticated credential exposure

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jetty-io, jetty-ant, jetty-jmx, jetty-jsp, jetty-xml, jetty-http, +30 more Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 openshift-origin-cartridge-fuse Red Hat Satellite 5 nutch
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-39455)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

75.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-39455 Inductive Automation Ignition 7.8.1 - Remote Leakage Of Shared Buffers remote, 2016-02-17
  • Nuclei template Eclipse Jetty <9.2.9.v20150224 - Sensitive Information Leakage nuclei detection template
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/12 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/jetty-9.2.x/advisories/2015-02-24-httpparser-error-buffer-bleed.md referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130567/Jetty-9.2.8-Shared-Buffer-Leakage.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • blog.gdssecurity.com https://blog.gdssecurity.com/labs/2015/2/25/jetleak-vulnerability-remote-leakage-of-shared-buffers-in-je.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
<9.2.9.v20150224
9.2.9.v20150224

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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