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CVE-2020-27223

Published: Feb 26, 2021Updated: Aug 20, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-407
5.2MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
78.0%
Top 0.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Nuclei · OpenVAS

Description

In Eclipse Jetty 9.4.6.v20170531 to 9.4.36.v20210114 (inclusive), 10.0.0, and 11.0.0 when Jetty handles a request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of “quality” (i.e. q) parameters, the server may enter a denial of service (DoS) state due to high CPU usage processing those quality values, resulting in minutes of CPU time exhausted processing those quality values.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:AAC:LPR:LUI:RS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:AAttack Vector
Adjacent
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-407CWE-400

Affected Products

netapp
commercial·US
e-series santricity os controller
Hardware Firmware
e-series santricity web services
Hardware Firmware
element plug-in for vcenter server
Hardware Firmware
hci
Hardware Firmware
hci management node
Hardware Firmware
management services for element software
Hardware Firmware
snap creator framework
Hardware Firmware
snapcenter
Hardware Firmware
apache
oss-project·USaka apache httpd, apache http server
nifiOn-premWeb App
Web & CMS Plugins
sparkLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
solrOn-premWeb App
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
The Eclipse Foundation
oss-projectaka eclipse mosquitto, eclipse jetty, eclipse openj9
Eclipse JettyOn-premWeb App
Networking Infrastructure / load-balancer-proxy
eclipse
oss-project·BEaka eclipse-foundation
jettyOn-premWeb App
Networking Infrastructure / load-balancer-proxy
debian
oss-project·GBaka debian gnu/linux
debian linuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
oracle
commercial·USaka oracle corp.
rest data servicesOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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References

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=571128
bugs.eclipse.org
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-m394-8rww-3jr7
github.com
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5612dc69e1f79c421faf9764ffbc92591e2a69ea417c04cba57f49ea%40%3Cuser.karaf.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
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