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medium6.5

CVE-2020-25689

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in WildFly

Impact

A memory leak flaw was found in WildFly in all versions up to 21.0.0.Final, where host-controller tries to reconnect in a loop, generating new connections which are not properly closed while not able to connect to domain-controller. This flaw allows an attacker to cause an Out of memory (OOM) issue, leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavenorg.wildfly:wildfly-dist<= 21.0.021.0.1

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
RedhatWildfly
through 21.0.0
RedhatFuse
Version 6.0.0
RedhatJboss Data Grid
Version 7.0.0
RedhatJboss Enterprise Application Platform
Version 7.0.0
RedhatJboss Fuse
Version 7.0.0
RedhatOpenshift Application Runtimes
All versions
RedhatSingle Sign-On
Version 7.0
NetappActive Iq Unified Manager
All versions
NetappOncommand Insight
All versions
NetappService Level Manager
All versions

Weakness classification

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