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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2020-14340

Medium
5.9/10

Summary

XNIO prior to 3.7.9.Final and 3.8.0.Final through 3.8.1.Final has a file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles between garbage collection cycles. This may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published