Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-27218

medium Nessus Plugin ID 223460

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- In Eclipse Jetty version 9.4.0.RC0 to 9.4.34.v20201102, 10.0.0.alpha0 to 10.0.0.beta2, and 11.0.0.alpha0 to 11.0.0.beta2, if GZIP request body inflation is enabled and requests from different clients are multiplexed onto a single connection, and if an attacker can send a request with a body that is received entirely but not consumed by the application, then a subsequent request on the same connection will see that body prepended to its body. The attacker will not see any data but may inject data into the body of the subsequent request. (CVE-2020-27218)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 223460

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2020_27218.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 7/12/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.23

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27218

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jetty-http, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jetty-util, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jetty-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jetty-util, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jetty-servlet, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jetty-continuation, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jetty-http, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jetty-continuation, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jetty-security, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jetty-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jetty-servlet, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jetty-security, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jetty-io, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jetty-io, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:jetty, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:eclipse

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27218

Detections

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