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
This medium-severity CVE scores 4.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit-prediction score not yet available (the EPSS model rescores nightly; freshly-published CVEs typically appear within 48 hours). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 4.8
- EG Score
- 4.8(low)
- EPSS
- 94.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
November 28, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (234)
- emo@eclipsehttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=568892
- emo@eclipsehttps://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-86wm-rrjm-8wh8
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00858fe27ee35ac8fa0e1549d67e0efb789d63b791b5300390bd8480%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r01806ad8c9cb0590584baf5b1a60237ad92e4ad5bba082ca04d98179%40%3Creviews.spark.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r05b7ffde2b8c180709e14bc9ca036407bea3ed9f09b32c4705d23a4a%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r078c1203e48089b2c934b9f86b61bebe8c049e0ea6273b124f349988%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0d2de2ab5558da68b504bd30db74da1d97dc152a857f5b7e462288ab%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r153fbefc27a1b2033692f32ef728ca909a7c7bcc1d21b6c35b38bdd5%40%3Creviews.spark.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r15500b77c52390e2ec048cea4a6b45edf907ea61cd13259193ff8601%40%3Creviews.spark.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r186748e676e5aeb4eb603361e6367555ae4daecbde55cfd69fa68ec6%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1dd302323c6fe1a542d0371de66a484918fa6c2831ae70d924974bea%40%3Cnotifications.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r22776d06582985cca5bd2a92519a2b13b4cae2d8e087318da03c036d%40%3Cnotifications.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r23ce6b8965e30808daa77a80fcd69833b1fc632d80465d0419eff619%40%3Cissues.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r25a47cd06750ebb4b0f23a9b7a57c209702c8566a4c970a41ac088df%40%3Creviews.spark.apache.org%3E
- emo@eclipsehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2a541f08bf5f847394297c13a5305c2f76c11e46504ce2a49653890a%40%3Creviews.spark.apache.org%3E
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-27218(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(7)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | jetty | 2022-03-23 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2021-11-23 | redhat |
| redhat | rhmtc/openshift-velero-plugin-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 | 2021-07-21 | redhat |
| redhat | jenkins-0:2.277.3.1623846768-1.el7 | 2021-07-02 | redhat |
| redhat | jenkins-0:2.289.1.1624365627-1.el7 | 2021-06-30 | redhat |
| redhat | jenkins-0:2.277.3.1623853726-1.el8 | 2021-06-29 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2021-02-04 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server | 9.4.0.v20161208 ... 9.4.9.v20180320 (50 versions) | 9.4.35.v20201120 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(7)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHBA-2021:2854MODERATE2020-11-27
RHBA-2021:2854 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2021:0329MODERATE2020-11-27
RHSA-2021:0329 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2021:2431MODERATE2020-11-27
RHSA-2021:2431 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2021:2499MODERATE2020-11-27
RHSA-2021:2499 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2021:2517MODERATE2020-11-27
RHSA-2021:2517 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2021:4767MODERATE2020-11-27
RHSA-2021:4767 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:1029MODERATE2020-11-27
RHSA-2022:1029 — Moderate
Data Freshness Timeline
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