Memory leak in Wildfly - CVE-2020-27822
Published: December 8, 2020 / Updated: February 1, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU50176
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27822
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the OpenTracing API's java-interceptors feature. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
Affected software
Wildfly
How to mitigate CVE-2020-27822
Install updates from vendor's website.
Wildfly - update to 21.0.1