Resource Exhaustion Affecting undertow package, versions <2.2.4-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.38% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-UNDERTOW-13803856
  • published2 Nov 2025
  • disclosed23 Feb 2021

Introduced: 23 Feb 2021

CVE-2020-27782  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 undertow to version 2.2.4-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream undertow package and not the undertow package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in the Undertow AJP connector. Malicious requests and abrupt connection closes could be triggered by an attacker using query strings with non-RFC compliant characters resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This affects Undertow 2.1.5.SP1, 2.0.33.SP2, and 2.2.3.SP1.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1