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SCA: security update for org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server (GHSA-m394-8rww-3jr7)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416682

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2020-27223)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m394-8rww-3jr7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416682

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27223

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27223

cwe: CWE-400