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CVE-2020-10718 (GCVE-0-2020-10718)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-16 18:06 – Updated: 2024-08-04 11:14
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Summary
A flaw was found in Wildfly before wildfly-embedded-13.0.0.Final, where the embedded managed process API has an exposed setting of the Thread Context Classloader (TCCL). This setting is exposed as a public method, which can bypass the security manager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
CWE
  • Exposed Dangerous Method or Function
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Wildfly Affected: before wildfly-embedded-13.0.0.Final
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