SCA: security update for org.jboss:jboss-ejb-client (GHSA-qcch-9268-59jw)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434269

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- A flaw was discovered in Wildfly's EJB Client as shipped with Red Hat JBoss EAP 7, where some specific EJB
transaction objects may get accumulated over the time and can cause services to slow down and eventaully
unavailable. An attacker can take advantage and cause denial of service attack and make services
unavailable. (CVE-2020-14297)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qcch-9268-59jw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434269

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14297

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14297

cwe: CWE-400