CVE-2020-14297: red hat wildfly Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2020-14297 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in red hat wildfly. EPSS estimates a 1.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 6.5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 9Timeline
- 24-07-2020PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 15-10-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · MavenEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST6.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.20%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
68%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 1.20% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Redhat6 products
- amq2.0
- jboss_enterprise_application_platform_continuous_deliveryna
- jboss_fuse6.0.0
- jboss-ejb-client≥ 1.0.0, < 4.0.34
- openshift_application_runtimesna
Org.jboss1 product
- jboss-ejb-client< 4.0.34.Final
Red hat1 product
- wildflyjboss-ejb-client as shipped with Red Hat JBoss EAP 7
3 vendors · 8 products
References
24 links- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14297X Refsource CONFIRMWEBIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
