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.
CVE-2020-14297
This medium-severity CVE scores 6.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 51% 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
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 64.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 24, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (2)
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14297
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14297
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-14297(6)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2020:3817Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: AMQ Clients 2.8.0 Release
- RHSA-2020:3501Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4.2 security update
- RHSA-2020:3463Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.2 security update
- RHSA-2020:3462Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.2 security update
- RHSA-2020:3461Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.2 security update
- RHSA-2020:3464Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.2 security update
Patch Availability(11)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | jboss-ejb-client | 2021-08-11 | redhat |
| redhat | qpid-proton-0:0.32.0-2.el8 | 2020-09-23 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2020-09-07 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap | 2020-09-07 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2020-09-07 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2020-09-02 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2020-08-18 | 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.el8eap | 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-naming-client-0:1.0.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 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.jboss:jboss-ejb-client | 1.0.0.Beta1 ... 4.0.9.Final (152 versions) | 4.0.34.Final | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(10)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2020:3141MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2020:3141 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:3142MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2020:3142 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:3143MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2020:3143 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:3144MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2020:3144 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:3539MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2020:3539 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:3637MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2020:3637 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:3638MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2020:3638 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:3639MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2020:3639 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:3642MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2020:3642 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3140MODERATE2020-07-23
RHSA-2021:3140 — Moderate
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