CVE-2020-14297 vulnerability in Red Hat Products
Published on July 24, 2020
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 Analysis
CVE-2020-14297 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2020-14297 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
Red Hat wildfly Version jboss-ejb-client as shipped with Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 is affected by CVE-2020-14297Exploit Probability
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