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.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime. This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.5, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.Security Fix(es): bcpg-fips: unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion (CVE-2026-3505) bcpkix-fips: PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid (CVE-2026-5588) bcprov-jdk18on: LDAP injection vulnerability in LDAPStoreHelper.java (CVE-2026-0636) bcprov-jdk18on: GOSTCTR implementation unable to process more than 255 blocks correctly (CVE-2025-14813) bcprov-jdk12: private key leakage via non-constant time comparisons (CVE-2026-5598) netty-codec-http: Netty: Denial of Service via HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame flood (CVE-2026-33871) netty-codec-http: Netty: Request smuggling via incorrect parsing of HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding extension values (CVE-2026-33870) artemis-server: Apache Artemis, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Message injection and exfiltration due to missing authentication (CVE-2026-27446) org.hibernate.orm/hibernate-c3p0: c3p0: Arbitrary Code Execution via deserialization of crafted objects (CVE-2026-27830) org.keycloak-keycloak-parent: Minimatch: Denial of Service via catastrophic backtracking in glob expressions (CVE-2026-27904) mchange-commons-java: mchange-commons-java: Arbitrary code execution via JNDI dereferencing of crafted objects (CVE-2026-27727) io.hawt-project: minimatch: Denial of Service via specially crafted glob patterns (CVE-2026-26996) wildfly-elytron-integration: Wildfly Elytron Brute Force Attack via CLI (CVE-2025-23368) plexus-utils: Plexus-utils: Directory Traversal in extractFile method (CVE-2025-67030) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.