A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Wildfly Security Manager (Application Server Software) (the affected version is unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation as part of a Request leads to a authentication bypass issues vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-592. This weakness has been deprecated because it covered redundant concepts already described in CWE-287. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in Wildfly Security Manager, running under JDK 11 or 8, that authorized requests for any requester. This flaw could be used by a malicious app deployed on the app server to access unauthorized information and possibly conduct further attacks. Versions shipped with Red Hat Jboss EAP 7 and Red Hat SSO 7 are vulnerable to this issue.

The weakness was released 01/07/2020 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-14843 since 08/10/2019. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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