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Red Hat JBoss EAP: CVE-2020-25689: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 30, 2020
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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.. A memory leak flaw was found in WildFly in all versions up to 21.0.0.Final, where the host-controller tries to reconnect in a loop, generating new connections that are not properly closed while unable to connect to the 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.

Solution

red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest
Title
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