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.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Debian DSA |
DSA-4949-1 | jetty9 security update |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-m394-8rww-3jr7 | DOS vulnerability for Quoted Quality CSV headers |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
No workaround given by the vendor.
References
History
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:15:00 +0000
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cvssV3_1
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: eclipse
Published:
Updated: 2025-08-20T10:03:37.386Z
Reserved: 2020-10-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-27223
No data.
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-02-26T22:15:19.317
Modified: 2025-08-20T10:15:27.843
Link: CVE-2020-27223
OpenCVE Enrichment
No data.
Debian DSA
Github GHSA