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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-27223: request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of "quality" parameters may lead to DoS

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-27223: request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of "quality" parameters may lead to DoS

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/26/2021
Created
06/30/2021
Added
06/30/2021
Modified
09/15/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-jenkins

References

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