What is CVE-2020-14384?

CVE-2020-14384 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-09-09.

How severe is CVE-2020-14384?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-14384 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform

CVE-2020-14384

A flaw was found in JBossWeb in versions before 7.5.31.Final-redhat-3. The fix for CVE-2020-13935 was incomplete in JBossWeb, leaving it vulnerable to a denial of service attack when sending multiple requests with invalid payload length in a WebSocket frame. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.014 (68.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Redhat Jboss_enterprise_application_platform — versions 6.0.0
Redhat Jbossweb
N/a Jbossweb — versions JBossWeb versions before 7.5.31.Final-redhat-3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-14384?: CVE-2020-14384 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-09-09.
How severe is CVE-2020-14384?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-14384 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.