GHSA-m394-8rww-3jr7 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — DOS vulnerability for Quoted Quality CSV headers
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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2020-27223 is rated Moderate Risk (60.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 77.95%, 100th percentile). Core evidence: EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. EPSS rose +44.13% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 33.82% | 77.95% | +44.13% |
| 2 | 2026-06-02 | 27.87% | 33.82% | +5.95% |
| 3 | 2026-05-22 | — | 27.87% | — |
Full EPSS history (74 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.5 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 5.3 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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3.9 | 1.4 | [email protected] |
| 4.3 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.6 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-m394-8rww-3jr7 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — DOS vulnerability for Quoted Quality CSV headers
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2020-27223 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (jetty9), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-27223 |
redhat
|
medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27223 |
suse
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high | CVE-2020-27223 severity important: SUSE including 57 source package names (jetty-annotations-9.4.38-3.6.2, jetty-annotations-9.4.43-1.2, …), 193 product×package rows across 15 product lines (Image server-image, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP2, … (15 product lines)): Fixed 193. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27223/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2020-27223 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (jetty9), 16 status rows across 16 suites (bionic, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 6, ignored 4, needs-triage 4, DNE 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27223 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| eclipse | jetty | >= 9.4.7, < 9.4.36 | cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| eclipse | jetty | 9.4.6 | cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.4.6:20170531:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| eclipse | jetty | 9.4.6 | cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.4.6:20180619:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| eclipse | jetty | 9.4.36 | cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.4.36:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| eclipse | jetty | 9.4.36 | cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.4.36:20210114:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| eclipse | jetty | 10.0.0 | cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:10.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| eclipse | jetty | 11.0.0 | cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:11.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | nifi | 1.13.0 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:nifi:1.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | spark | 3.1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:spark:3.1.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netapp | e-series_santricity_os_controller | >= 11.0.0, <= 11.70.1 | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:e-series_santricity_os_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netapp | e-series_santricity_web_services | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:e-series_santricity_web_services:-:*:*:*:*:web_services_proxy:*:* |
| netapp | element_plug-in_for_vcenter_server | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:element_plug-in_for_vcenter_server:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netapp | hci | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:hci:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netapp | hci_management_node | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:hci_management_node:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netapp | management_services_for_element_software | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:management_services_for_element_software:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netapp | snap_creator_framework | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:snap_creator_framework:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netapp | snapcenter | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:snapcenter:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netapp | snapmanager | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:snapmanager:-:*:*:*:*:oracle:*:* |
| netapp | snapmanager | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:snapmanager:-:*:*:*:*:sap:*:* |
| netapp | solidfire | — | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:solidfire:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | solr | 8.8.1 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:solr:8.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| oracle | rest_data_services | < 20.4.3.050.1904 | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:rest_data_services:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* |