A flaw was found in the Undertow AJP connector. Malicious requests and abrupt connection closes could be triggered by an attacker using query strings with non-RFC compliant characters resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This affects Undertow 2.1.5.SP1, 2.0.33.SP2, and 2.2.3.SP1.
CVE-2020-27782
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.2%, top 61% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. 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).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 66.4%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
February 23, 2021
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (2)
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901304
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901304
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-27782(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(8)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-0:1.0.12-6.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7 | 2025-06-25 | redhat |
| redhat | undertow | 2021-12-14 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2021-08-18 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2021-02-08 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-http-client-0:1.0.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2021-01-25 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-http-client-0:1.0.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2021-01-25 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-http-client-0:1.0.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap | 2021-01-25 | redhat |
| redhat | undertow-core | 2021-01-25 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| io.undertow:undertow-core | 1.0.0.Alpha1 ... 2.0.9.Final (249 versions) | 2.0.33 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(9)
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 HatRHSA-2021:0246IMPORTANT2021-01-25
RHSA-2021:0246 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:0247IMPORTANT2021-01-25
RHSA-2021:0247 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:0248IMPORTANT2021-01-25
RHSA-2021:0248 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:0250IMPORTANT2021-01-25
RHSA-2021:0250 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:0295IMPORTANT2021-01-25
RHSA-2021:0295 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:0327IMPORTANT2021-01-25
RHSA-2021:0327 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3205IMPORTANT2021-01-25
RHSA-2021:3205 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3207IMPORTANT2021-01-25
RHSA-2021:3207 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3425IMPORTANT2021-01-25
RHSA-2021:3425 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
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