What is CVE-2020-14299?

CVE-2020-14299 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-10-16.

How severe is CVE-2020-14299?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform

CVE-2020-14299

A flaw was found in JBoss EAP, where the authentication configuration is set-up using a legacy SecurityRealm, to delegate to a legacy PicketBox SecurityDomain, and then reloaded to admin-only mode. This flaw allows an attacker to perform a complete authentication bypass by using an arbitrary user and password. The highest threat to vulnerability is to system availability.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.014 (70.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Redhat Jboss_enterprise_application_platform
Redhat Openshift_application_runtimes
Redhat Single_sign-on — versions 7.0
N/a Picketbox — versions redhat-picketbox 5.0.3.Final-redhat-00007

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-14299?: CVE-2020-14299 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-10-16.
How severe is CVE-2020-14299?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.