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CVE-2021-3717 (GCVE-0-2021-3717)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-24 18:18 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:01
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a wildfly Affected: wildfly-core 17.0
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