CVE-2020-27782: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

February 23, 2021 (updated February 27, 2021)

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.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901304
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27782

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