CVE-2017-7657
CRITICALEPSS 97th pctlDescription
In Eclipse Jetty, versions 9.2.x and older, 9.3.x (all configurations), and 9.4.x (non-default configuration with RFC2616 compliance enabled), transfer-encoding chunks are handled poorly. The chunk length parsing was vulnerable to an integer overflow. Thus a large chunk size could be interpreted as a smaller chunk size and content sent as chunk body could be interpreted as a pipelined request. If Jetty was deployed behind an intermediary that imposed some authorization and that intermediary allowed arbitrarily large chunks to be passed on unchanged, then this flaw could be used to bypass the authorization imposed by the intermediary as the fake pipelined request would not be interpreted by the intermediary as a request.
How to fix
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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-22536 | Critical | 10.0 | 98% | KEV | - |
| CVE-2025-61884 | High | 7.5 | 96% | KEV + Ransom | - |
| CVE-2020-9490 | High | 7.5 | 89% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2023-41265 | Critical | 9.6 | 88% | KEV + Ransom | - |
| CVE-2023-25690 | Critical | 9.8 | 85% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2022-32214 | Medium | 6.5 | 82% | - | Fix |
Common questions
How do I fix CVE-2017-7657?
Upgrade jetty9 on debian 12 to 9.2.25-1 or later.
Is CVE-2017-7657 being actively exploited?
Not that we know of. CVE-2017-7657 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 14.9% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.
How severe is CVE-2017-7657?
CVE-2017-7657 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, rated critical. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.
What does CVE-2017-7657 affect?
Published advisories record a fix for jetty9 (Debian). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.
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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-06-17.