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 Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.2
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade jetty9 | Aug 6, 2021 | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Redhat Openshift | — | Upgrade jenkins | Jun 30, 2021 | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade jetty-util-ajaxUpgrade jetty-utilUpgrade jetty-httpUpgrade jetty-serverUpgrade jetty-ioUpgrade jetty-servletUpgrade jetty-security | Jun 2, 2021 | Feb 26, 2021 |
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