Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting org.jboss.remoting:jboss-remoting package, versions [,5.0.20.Final)
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- published 4 Jun 2021
- disclosed 4 Jun 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 4 Jun 2021
CVE-2020-35510 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.jboss.remoting:jboss-remoting
to version 5.0.20.Final or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). A malicious attacker could cause threads to hold up forever in the EJB server by writing a sequence of bytes corresponding to the expected messages of a successful EJB client request, but omitting the ACK messages, or just tamper with jboss-remoting code, deleting the lines that send the ACK message from the EJB client code. This would result in a denial of service.
Details
Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.
Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.
One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.
When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.
Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:
High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.
Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm
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