CVE Database · CVE-2020-27223
CVSS v3.1
5.2
EPSS
77.95%
Published
Feb 26, 2021
Modified
Aug 20, 2025
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
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.
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (23)
References (20)