CVE-2020-14340 in Red Hat and Oracle Products
Published on June 2, 2021
A vulnerability was discovered in XNIO where file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles between garbage collection cycles. It may allow the attacker to cause a denial of service. It affects XNIO versions 3.6.0.Beta1 through 3.8.1.Final.
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-2020-14340 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.33%
Percentile
55.55%
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