Resource Exhaustion Affecting jetty-util-ajax package, versions <9.4.38-3.6.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.54% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-JETTYUTILAJAX-2684571
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed24 Mar 2021

Introduced: 24 Mar 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 jetty-util-ajax to version 9.4.38-3.6.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jetty-util-ajax package and not the jetty-util-ajax package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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.

References

CVSS Scores

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