Red Hat JBossEAP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2020-14297)
Description
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.. 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.
Solution(s)
- red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest
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