Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Wildfly
CVE-2020-14297
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.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.012 (68.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 68.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Red Hat Wildfly — versions jboss-ejb-client as shipped with Red Hat JBoss EAP 7
- Red Hat Amq — versions 2.0
- Red Hat Jboss-Ejb-Client
- Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous Delivery
- Red Hat Jboss Fuse — versions 6.0.0
- Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes
- Red Hat Single Sign-On — versions 7.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-14297?
- CVE-2020-14297 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Wildfly, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-07-24.
- How severe is CVE-2020-14297?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.