CVE-2020-27223

Published: Feb 26, 2021Updated: Aug 20, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-407

5.2MEDIUM

NVD MITRE

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

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-407 CWE-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

management services for element software

Hardware Firmware

snap creator framework

oss-project·USaka apache http server, apache httpd

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 openj9, eclipse mosquitto, eclipse jetty

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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MITRE ATT&CK

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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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