DOS vulnerability for Quoted Quality CSV headers
Impact
When Jetty handles a request containing request headers with a large number of “quality” (i.e. q) parameters (such as what are seen on the Accept, Accept-Encoding, and Accept-Language request headers), the server may enter a denial of service (DoS) state due to high CPU usage while sorting the list of values based on their quality values. A single request can easily consume minutes of CPU time before it is even dispatched to the application.
The only features within Jetty that can trigger this behavior are:
- Default Error Handling - the
Acceptrequest header with theQuotedQualityCSVis used to determine what kind of content to send back to the client (html, text, json, xml, etc) StatisticsServlet- uses theAcceptrequest header with theQuotedQualityCSVto determine what kind of content to send back to the client (xml, json, text, html, etc)HttpServletRequest.getLocale()- uses theAccept-Languagerequest header with theQuotedQualityCSVto determine which “preferred” language is returned on this call.HttpservletRequest.getLocales()- is similar to the above, but returns an ordered list of locales based on the quality values on theAccept-Languagerequest header.DefaultServlet- uses theAccept-Encodingrequest header with theQuotedQualityCSVto determine which kind of pre-compressed content should be sent back for static content (content that is not matched against a url-pattern in your web app)
Versions
QuotedQualityCSV was introduced to Jetty 9.3.9.v20160517 and the bug that introduced the vulnerability was in 9.4.6.v20170531.
Currently, known vulnerable versions include:
- 9.4.6.v20170531 thru to 9.4.36.v20210114
- 10.0.0
- 11.0.0
Workarounds
Quality ordered values are used infrequently by jetty so they can be avoided by:
- Do not use the default error page/handler.
- Do not deploy the
StatisticsServletexposed to the network - Do not call
getLocaleAPI - Do not enable precompressed static content in the
DefaultServlet
Patches
All patches are available for download from the Eclipse Jetty website at https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/download.php
- 9.4.37.v20210219 and greater
- 10.0.1 and greater
- 11.0.1 and greater
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| Plattform | Paket | Anfällige Versionen | Behoben in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Java / Kotlin (Maven) | org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server | >= 9.4.6, < 9.4.37, >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.1, >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.1 | 9.4.37, 10.0.1, 11.0.1 |
Verweise
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-m394-8rww-3jr7
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27223
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd666e187ebea2fda8624683ab51e2a5ad2108f762d21bf1a383d7502@%3Creviews.spark.apache.org%3E
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