Bug 55918 - CTL characters may appear in quoted values for RFC2109 V1 cookies
Summary: CTL characters may appear in quoted values for RFC2109 V1 cookies
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat 8
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Connectors (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0.x-trunk
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2013-12-21 21:11 UTC by Jeremy Boynes
Modified: 2014-09-02 15:25 UTC (History)
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Description Jeremy Boynes 2013-12-21 21:11:46 UTC 
If a V1 cookie contains a CTL character in a quoted value, no error is logged or raised. This differs from CTLs in unquoted values that result in an IllegalArgumentException and a 500 response.

Example:
Cookie: $Version=1; foo="b_BS_r"
where _BS_ is a BS character (0x08)

RFC2109 allows the value to be "quoted-string" which from RFC2616 may contain TEXT which must not contain CTLs.
Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2014-09-02 15:25:51 UTC 
The new RFC6265 cookie parser (that also includes a new RFC2109 parser)
correctly handles these values. I don't propose fixing the old parser.