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CVE-2020-14384 (GCVE-0-2020-14384)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-09 13:17 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:46
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a JBossWeb Affected: JBossWeb versions before 7.5.31.Final-redhat-3
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