How to disable the SSLv3 protocol in Jetty to prevent Poodle Attack

Atul Soman picture Atul Soman · Oct 15, 2014 · Viewed 18.5k times · Source

Is there any specific exclusion list available which disables only SSLv3 ciphers are not TLSv1/2.

I have jetty 8, and upgrading to 9 is not an option now. My current jetty-ssl.xml looks as follows

<Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
<Call name="addConnector">
    <Arg>
        <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.ssl.SslSelectChannelConnector">
            <Arg>
                <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.http.ssl.SslContextFactory">
                    .........
                </New>
            </Arg>
            <Set name="ExcludeCipherSuites">
                <Array type="java.lang.String">             
                <Item>SSL_RSA_WITH_NULL_MD5</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_MD5</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_WITH_IDEA_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DHE_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DHE_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_anon_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_FORTEZZA_KEA_WITH_NULL_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_FORTEZZA_KEA_WITH_FORTEZZA_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_FORTEZZA_KEA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA</Item>
                <Item>SSL_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA</Item>   
                </Array>
            </Set>
        </New>
    </Arg>
</Call>

still when i run "sslscan --no-failed --ssl3 localhost:443" i get

    Supported Server Cipher(s):
  Accepted  SSLv3  128 bits  DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
  Accepted  SSLv3  128 bits  AES128-SHA

Prefered Server Cipher(s):
  SSLv3  128 bits  DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA

Answer

Lars picture Lars · Oct 15, 2014

I had to disable SSLv3 in an application where we integrate Jetty source code. Based on what I changed in code, I would guess you add the following:

<Set name="ExcludeProtocols">
    <Array type="java.lang.String">             
       <Item>SSLv3</Item>
    </Array>
</Set>

Give it a shot and let me know if it works for you.