JBWEB002039: Control character in cookie value or attribute

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We see the following exception with certain characters in our unquoted version 0 cookie value:
ERROR [org.apache.catalina.connector] (http-/10.242.95.210:18180-1) JBWEB001018: An exception or error occurred in the container during the request processing: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: JBWEB002039: Control character in cookie value or attribute
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.CookieSupport.isHttpSeparator(CookieSupport.java:188) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies.getTokenEndPosition(Cookies.java:454) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies.processCookieHeader(Cookies.java:333) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies.processCookies(Cookies.java:158) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies.getCookieCount(Cookies.java:96) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.parseSessionCookiesId(CoyoteAdapter.java:637) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.postParseRequest(CoyoteAdapter.java:579) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:333) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:653) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:920) [jbossweb-7.2.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.2.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.x

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