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CVE-2020-27222

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-27222 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Eclipse Californium versions 2.3.0 to 2.6.0. A DTLS server can enter a persistent incorrect internal state after a failed certificate-based handshake, requiring a restart to recover. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely force a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (High) due to its network attack vector and high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.3.0, <= 2.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:californium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0085 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 2
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7Fixed in: californium-core
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel K 1Fixed in: californium-core
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1Fixed in: californium-core

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-27222Important

californium-core: DTLS - DoS vulnerability for certificate based handshakes

Feb 3, 2021

References

bugs.eclipse.org / bugs/show_bug.cgi
Permissions RequiredVendor Advisory