CVE-2020-14317

MEDIUM

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform - Signal Handler Race Condition via PID File Modification

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

It was found that the issue for security flaw CVE-2019-3805 appeared again in a further version of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform - Continuous Delivery (EAP-CD) introducing regression. An attacker could exploit this by modifying the PID file in /var/run/jboss-eap/ allowing the init.d script to terminate any process as root.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1854251

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 8.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-364
Status published
Products (2)
redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform
redhat/wildfly
Published Jun 02, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026