A vulnerability was found in Wildfly in versions before 20.0.0.Final, where a remote deserialization attack is possible in the Enterprise Application Beans(EJB) due to lack of validation/filtering capabilities in wildfly.
CVE-2020-10740
This medium-severity CVE scores 6.6 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.7%, top 25% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.6
- EG Score
- 6.6(medium)
- EG Risk
- 35(Track)EG Risk 35/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity66% × 45%Exploitation2% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 2%
- EPSS %ILE
- 80%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 22, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (2)
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10740
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10740
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-10740(17)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2025:9582Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.11 on RHEL 7 security update
- RHSA-2020:5568Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Fuse 7.8.0 release and security update
- RHSA-2020:3642Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.9 security update
- RHSA-2020:3638Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.9 on RHEL 7 security update
- RHSA-2020:3639Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.9 on RHEL 8 security update
- RHSA-2020:3637Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2.9 on RHEL 6 security update
- RHSA-2020:3539Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat build of Thorntail 2.7.1 security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2020:3585Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: EAP Continuous Delivery Technical Preview Release 20 security update
- +9 more
Patch Availability(12)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-0:1.0.12-6.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7 | 2025-06-25 | redhat |
| redhat | wildfly | 2020-12-16 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2020-09-07 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap | 2020-09-07 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2020-09-07 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2020-09-07 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2020-09-02 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-http-client-0:1.0.22-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2020-08-17 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-http-client-0:1.0.22-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap | 2020-08-17 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-http-client-0:1.0.22-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2020-08-17 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-naming-client-0:1.0.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2020-07-23 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2020-07-23 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.wildfly:wildfly-parent | 10.0.0.Alpha1 ... 9.0.2.Final (67 versions) | 20.0.0.Final | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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