CVE-2020-14299: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in JBoss EAP, where the authentication configuration is set-up using a legacy SecurityRealm, to delegate to a legacy PicketBox SecurityDomain, and then reloaded to admin-only mode. This flaw allows an attacker to perform a complete authentication bypass by using an arbitrary user and password. The highest threat to vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected products

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: before 5.0.3 (fixed in 5.0.3)
• Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Single Sign-On: version 7.0 only

Published 2020-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.