CVE-2020-35510
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in jboss-remoting
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.56%
Description
A flaw was found in jboss-remoting in versions before 5.0.20.SP1-redhat-00001. A malicious attacker could cause threads to hold up forever in the EJB server by writing a sequence of bytes corresponding to the expected messages of a successful EJB client request, but omitting the ACK messages, or just tamper with jboss-remoting code, deleting the lines that send the ACK message from the EJB client code resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
How to fix CVE-2020-35510
To remediate CVE-2020-35510, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 5.0.20.Final or later
Is CVE-2020-35510 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 5.0.20.Final
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |