Bug 1893070 (CVE-2020-25689)

Summary: CVE-2020-25689 wildfly-core: memory leak in WildFly host-controller in domain mode while not able to reconnect to domain-controller
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Ted Jongseok Won <jwon>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aboyko, aileenc, akoufoud, alazarot, almorale, anstephe, asoldano, atangrin, avibelli, bbaranow, bgeorges, bmaxwell, brian.stansberry, cdewolf, chazlett, darran.lofthouse, dkreling, dosoudil, drieden, eleandro, etirelli, ggaughan, gmalinko, ibek, iweiss, janstey, jawilson, jbalunas, jochrist, jpallich, jperkins, jstastny, jwon, krathod, kverlaen, kwills, lgao, lthon, mnovotny, msochure, msvehla, mszynkie, nwallace, pdrozd, pgallagh, pjindal, pmackay, rguimara, rrajasek, rruss, rstancel, rsvoboda, rsynek, sdaley, smaestri, sthorger, tom.jenkinson
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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.
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Description Ted Jongseok Won 2020-10-30 02:48:54 UTC
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.

* Reference: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/WFCORE-5105
* Upstream patch: https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/pull/4308
* Affected artifacts:
wildfly-host-controller-VERSION.jar
wildfly-protocol-VERSION.jar
jboss-cli-client.jar

Comment 6 Jonathan Christison 2020-11-02 17:38:25 UTC
This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following products:
 * Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6

Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes for more details.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2021-01-25 16:19:30 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Via RHSA-2021:0250 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0250

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2021-01-25 16:29:03 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2021:0246 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0246

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2021-01-25 16:33:44 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2021:0247 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0247

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2021-01-25 16:39:15 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2021:0248 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0248

Comment 14 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-01-25 16:47:03 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-25689

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2021-02-01 18:56:35 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4.5

Via RHSA-2021:0327 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0327

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2021-02-08 09:06:49 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes

Via RHSA-2021:0295 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0295

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2022-07-07 14:19:58 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Fuse 7.11

Via RHSA-2022:5532 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5532