CVE-2020-25689

moderate-risk
Published 2020-11-02

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.24% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.3/10 Medium
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (12)

Wildfly

Affected Vendors

Redhat Netapp

References (4)

Exploit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-25689
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201123-0006/
Exploit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-25689
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201123-0006/
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 17/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 17/34 · Moderate