VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2020-27223
CVSS score5.2 MEDIUM
EPSS probability78.03%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-02-26
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
Weakness classification
- emo@eclipse.org: CWE-407
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-400