Medium severity · published Feb 26, 2021
CVE-2020-27223
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…
5.3
CVSS
78%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)78.0% · higher than 100% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
ES
E-series Santricity OS Controller · Netapp
11.0.0 through 11.70.1 · source: NVD
ES
E-series Santricity Web Services · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
EP
Element Plug-in For Vcenter Server · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HC
Hci · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HM
Hci Management Node · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
JE
Jetty · Eclipse
9.4.7 before 9.4.36; 9.4.6; 9.4.6; 9.4.36; 9.4.36; 10.0.0; +1 more · source: NVD
MS
Management Services For Element Software · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
NI
Nifi · Apache
1.13.0 · source: NVD
RD
Rest Data Services · Oracle
before 20.4.3.050.1904 · source: NVD
SC
Snap Creator Framework · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
SN
Snapcenter · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27223
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27223
Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=571128
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-m394-8rww-3jr7
github.com
https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/commit/10e531756b972162eed402c44d0244f7f6b85131
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r068dfd35ce2193f6af28b74ff29ab148c2b2cacb235995576f5bea78%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r07aedcb1ece62969c406cb84c8f0e22cec7e42cdc272f3176e473320%40%3Cusers.solr.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0b639bd9bfaea265022125d18acd2fc6456044b76609ec74772c9567%40%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
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