CVE-2020-27978

HIGH

Shibboleth Identity Provider 3.0.0-3.4.5 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Java Heap Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Shibboleth Identify Provider 3.x before 3.4.6 has a denial of service flaw. A remote unauthenticated attacker can cause a login flow to trigger Java heap exhaustion due to the creation of objects in the Java Servlet container session.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0183
EPSS Percentile 76.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (1)
shibboleth/identity_provider 3.0.0 - 3.4.6
Published Oct 28, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026