CVE-2020-14297

wildfly: Some EJB transaction objects may get accumulated causing Denial of Service

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Se detectó un fallo en Wildfly's EJB Client que se incluyó con Red Hat JBoss EAP 7, donde algunos objetos de transacción EJB específicos pueden ser acumulados con el tiempo y pueden causar que los servicios se ralenticen y eventualmente no estén disponibles. Un atacante puede tomar ventaja y causar un ataque de denegación de servicio y hacer que los servicios no estén disponibles

A flaw was found in Wildfly's EJB Client, where the accumulation of specific EJB transaction objects over time can cause services to slow down and eventually become unavailable. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2020-06-17 CVE Reserved
2020-07-24 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14297	Issue Tracking

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14297	2021-08-11
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853595	2021-08-11

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Amq Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Amq"				2.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Amq" and version "2.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Jboss-ejb-client Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Jboss-ejb-client"				>= 1.0.0 < 4.0.34 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Jboss-ejb-client" and version " >= 1.0.0 < 4.0.34"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous Delivery Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous Delivery"				-		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Jboss Fuse Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Jboss Fuse"				6.0.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Jboss Fuse" and version "6.0.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Openshift Application Runtimes Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Openshift Application Runtimes"				-		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Single Sign-on Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Single Sign-on"				7.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Single Sign-on" and version "7.0"		-		Affected