vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-27223: jetty: 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
Feb 26, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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

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Title
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