Jetty vulnerable to errant command quoting in CGI Servlet

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36479",
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    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Jetty vulnerable to errant command quoting in CGI Servlet",
    "summary": "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 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.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:23.089288402Z",
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      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00039.html",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/36xxx/CVE-2023-36479.json",
        "https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-3gh6-v5v9-6v9j",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36479",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5507",
        "https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9516",
        "https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9888",
        "https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9889"
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  "published_at": "2023-09-15T18:37:35.948+00:00"
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