Resource Exhaustion Affecting jetty-start package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.42% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-JETTYSTART-2008637
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed26 Feb 2021

Introduced: 26 Feb 2021

CVE-2020-27223  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 jetty-start.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jetty-start package and not the jetty-start package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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