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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:18054 advisory.

    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):

    * bcprov-jdk18on: GOSTCTR implementation unable to process more than 255 blocks correctly (CVE-2025-14813)

    *bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: GOSTCTR implementation unable to process more than 255 blocks correctly     (CVE-2025-14813)

    * bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion     (CVE-2026-3505)

    * bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid     (CVE-2026-5588)

    * bcprov-ext-jdk15on: LDAP injection vulnerability in LDAPStoreHelper.java (CVE-2026-0636)

    * 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)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:18055 advisory.

    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):

    * bcprov-jdk18on: GOSTCTR implementation unable to process more than 255 blocks correctly (CVE-2025-14813)

    *bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: GOSTCTR implementation unable to process more than 255 blocks correctly     (CVE-2025-14813)

    * bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion     (CVE-2026-3505)

    * bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid     (CVE-2026-5588)

    * bcprov-ext-jdk15on: LDAP injection vulnerability in LDAPStoreHelper.java (CVE-2026-0636)
    * 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)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
315192	RHEL 8 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 (RHSA-2026:18054)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
315188	RHEL 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 (RHSA-2026:18055)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

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