Vulnerability · Published Jul 24, 2020 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-14297

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in wildfly from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 68% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 31.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was discovered in Wildfly's EJB Client as shipped with Red Hat JBoss EAP 7, where some specific EJB transaction objects may get accumulated over the time and can cause services to slow down and eventaully unavailable. An attacker can take advantage and cause denial of service attack and make services unavailable.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Maven	org.jboss:jboss-ejb-client	4.0.34.Final	GHSA-qcch-9268-59jw

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	wildfly	jboss-ejb-client as shipped with Red Hat JBoss EAP 7

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14297 x_refsource_CONFIRM