CVE-2020-27223 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2020-27223

In Eclipse Jetty 9.4.6.v20170531 to 9.4.36.v20210114 (inclusive), 10.0.0, and 11.0.0...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

The Eclipse Foundation

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Affected Software

Eclipse Jetty
Vulnerable Versions:
9.4.6.v20170531, unspecified, 10.0.0, 11.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 26th, 2021
Last Modified: August 20th, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-407

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.