CVE-2014-0086

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-03-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The doFilter function in webapp/PushHandlerFilter.java in JBoss RichFaces 4.3.4, 4.3.5, and 5.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory error) via a large number of malformed atmosphere push requests.

Affected products

RedHat Jboss Web Framework Kit: 2.5.0
RedHat Richfaces: 4.3.4, 4.3.5, 5.0.0-alpha1, 5.0.0-alpha2, 5.0.0-alpha3

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0335.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57053
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1067268
https://github.com/pslegr/core-1/commit/8131f15003f5bec73d475d2b724472e4b87d0757
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-13250
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0335.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57053
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1067268
https://github.com/pslegr/core-1/commit/8131f15003f5bec73d475d2b724472e4b87d0757
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-13250

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