Wildfly Elytron integration susceptible to brute force attacks via CLI
### Impact A flaw was found in Wildfly Elytron integration. The component does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within a short time frame, making it more susceptible to brute force attacks via CLI. ### Patches The default behaviour has been changed in WildFly Core 31.0.3.Final, and 32.0.0.Beta3 - the first version is used by WildFly 39.0.1.Final and the second will be included in WildFly 40. ### Workarounds No direct workaround. Monitoring network traffic / blocking suspicious traffic may help. ### References https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23368 https://issues.redhat.com/browse/WFCORE-7192 ### Acknowledgements We would like to thank Claudia Bartolini (TIM S.p.A), Marco Ventura (TIM S.p.A), and Massimiliano Brolli (TIM S.p.A) for reporting this issue.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-23368US | high8.1 | — | ||
A flaw was found in Wildfly Elytron integration. The component does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within a short time frame,… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-23368WEB
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2337621WEB
- https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-corePACKAGE
- https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/commit/11e873031c522a0b36afb59880ce4dd59efd0bc0WEB
- https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/commit/a6f9d7534aa44de741337756f8377ad3a81f7695WEB
- https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/pull/6634WEB
- https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/pull/6635WEB
- https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/security/advisories/GHSA-qhp6-6p8p-2rqhWEB
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