CVE-2021-3717 — Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties in Redhat Wildfly Core

CWE-552 — Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 84.74%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Redhat Wildfly CoreRedhat WildflyRedhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
Timeline
PublishedMay 24
Latest updateMay 25

Description

A flaw was found in Wildfly. An incorrect JBOSS_LOCAL_USER challenge location when using the elytron configuration may lead to JBOSS_LOCAL_USER access to all users on the machine. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This flaw affects wildfly-core versions prior to 17.0.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5redhat/wildfly_corewildfly-core 17.0
▶CVEListV5redhat/wildflywildfly-core 17.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
Wildfly-Core user account mismanagement↗2022-05-25
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OSV
Wildfly-Core user account mismanagement↗2022-05-25
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CVEList
CVE-2021-3717: A flaw was found in Wildfly↗2022-05-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
wildfly: incorrect JBOSS_LOCAL_USER challenge location may lead to giving access to all the local users↗2021-08-18
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