Red Hat JBossWeb up to 7.5.31 WebSocket Multiple Requests resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Red Hat JBossWeb up to 7.5.31. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component WebSocket. This manipulation as part of Multiple Requests causes resource consumption. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-14384. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat JBossWeb up to 7.5.31 (Application Server Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component WebSocket. The manipulation as part of a Multiple Requests leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in JBossWeb in versions before 7.5.31.Final-redhat-3. The fix for CVE-2020-13935 was incomplete in JBossWeb, leaving it vulnerable to a denial of service attack when sending multiple requests with invalid payload length in a WebSocket frame. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

The weakness was released 09/09/2020 as Bug 1875176 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-14384 since 06/17/2020. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 7.5.31.Final-redhat-3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Application Server Software

Vendor

• Red Hat

Name

• JBossWeb

Version

• 7.5.0
• 7.5.1
• 7.5.2
• 7.5.3
• 7.5.4
• 7.5.5
• 7.5.6
• 7.5.7
• 7.5.8
• 7.5.9
• 7.5.10
• 7.5.11
• 7.5.12
• 7.5.13
• 7.5.14
• 7.5.15
• 7.5.16
• 7.5.17
• 7.5.18
• 7.5.19
• 7.5.20
• 7.5.21
• 7.5.22
• 7.5.23
• 7.5.24
• 7.5.25
• 7.5.26
• 7.5.27
• 7.5.28
• 7.5.29
• 7.5.30
• 7.5.31

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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