High

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in jboss-remoting

  • Disclosed: 18.03.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:21

A flaw was found in jboss-remoting in versions before 5.0.20.SP1-redhat-00001. 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 resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.jboss.remoting:jboss-remoting < 5.0.20.Final 5.0.20.Final

References

CVSS score 7.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.jboss.remoting:jboss-remoting
Disclosed
18.03.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 11:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-p6j8-hgv5-m35g - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.jboss.remoting:jboss-remoting

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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