UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27223

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27223

    Published: 26 Feb 2021Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-27223

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27223, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=571128, https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-m394-8rww-3jr7, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27223

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: jetty9

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    9.2.14-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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