High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3717
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-3717
Complete source record
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