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Vulnerability record · CVE-2020-14297 · published 24 July 2020

CVE-2020-14297: Redhat amq uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability

Redhat · Amq

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.

6.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 1.2% · top 33.0% CWE-400 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 4.0
1.2%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
6Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

6 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14297 Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14297 Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2020-14297), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-29). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.