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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-14297

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:36 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-14297

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Jul 2020, 16:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2020-14297
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-14297",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:31.147180646Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2020-07-24T16:15:11.803+00:00"
}