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

  - A vulnerability was discovered in XNIO where file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO
    Selector file handles between garbage collection cycles. It may allow the attacker to cause a denial of
    service. It affects XNIO versions 3.6.0.Beta1 through 3.8.1.Final. (CVE-2020-14340)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4245 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly     application runtime.

    This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.2 and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss     Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes     and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * picketbox: JBoss EAP reload to admin-only mode allows authentication bypass (CVE-2020-14299)

    * wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in     xercesImpl (CVE-2020-14338)

    * xnio: file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles may lead to DoS     (CVE-2020-14340)

    * cxf: JMX integration is vulnerable to a MITM attack (CVE-2020-1954)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4246 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly     application runtime.

    This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.2 and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss     Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes     and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * picketbox: JBoss EAP reload to admin-only mode allows authentication bypass (CVE-2020-14299)

    * wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in     xercesImpl (CVE-2020-14338)

    * xnio: file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles may lead to DoS     (CVE-2020-14340)

    * cxf: JMX integration is vulnerable to a MITM attack (CVE-2020-1954)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A vulnerability was discovered in XNIO where file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO     Selector file handles between garbage collection cycles. It may allow the attacker to cause a denial of     service. It affects XNIO versions 3.6.0.Beta1 through 3.8.1.Final. (CVE-2020-14340)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4244 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly     application runtime.

    This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 serves as a replacement for Red Hat     JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.2 and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss     Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes     and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * picketbox: JBoss EAP reload to admin-only mode allows authentication bypass (CVE-2020-14299)

    * wildfly: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of use-grammar-pool-only in     xercesImpl (CVE-2020-14338)

    * xnio: file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles may lead to DoS     (CVE-2020-14340)

    * cxf: JMX integration is vulnerable to a MITM attack (CVE-2020-1954)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
413735	SCA: security update for org.jboss.xnio:xnio-nio (GHSA-c738-77x8-wmq5)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	1/23/2025	7/2/2026	medium
413735	SCA: security update for org.jboss.xnio:xnio-nio (GHSA-c738-77x8-wmq5)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	1/23/2025	7/2/2026	medium
141457	RHEL 8 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 security update on RHEL 8 (Moderate) (RHSA-2020:4245)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	10/14/2020	11/7/2024	medium
170297	RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 security update on RHEL 7 (Moderate) (RHSA-2020:4246)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	1/23/2023	11/7/2024	medium
252556	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-14340	Nessus	Misc.	8/20/2025	7/5/2026	medium
141454	RHEL 6 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.3 security update on RHEL 6 (Moderate) (RHSA-2020:4244)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	10/14/2020	11/7/2024	medium

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