CVE-2020-14326 RESTEasy 4.5.5.Final in hash flooding

High 7.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause denial of service in RESTEasy by exploiting hash flooding in route caching, leading to high CPU usage.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2020-14326?

CVE-2020-14326 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Oncommand Insight, published on 2 Jun 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability was found in RESTEasy, where RootNode incorrectly caches routes. This issue results in hash flooding, leading to slower requests with higher CPU time spent searching and adding the entry. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-14326?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-bom. It affects 3 products.

PackageAffectedFixed in
org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-bom MavenAll versions4.5.6.Final
org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-bom MavenAll versions4.5.6.Final

Products include Netapp Oncommand Insight, Redhat Integration Camel K, Redhat Resteasy.

How do I fix CVE-2020-14326?

Upgrade org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-bom to 4.5.6.Final or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-14326 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14326 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Netapp Oncommand Insight vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-37g7-8vjj-pjpj, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14326.

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