Advisory severityMedium6.5Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2023-4061] Wildfly-core: management user rbac permission allows unexpected reading of system-properties to an unauthorized actor

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2023-4061 affecting Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7.

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CVE-2023-4061 Source published Nov 8, 2023Source updated Oct 5, 2023

VulniPulse record published Sep 23, 2026

CVE-2023-4061

Affected products & platforms

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Summary

A flaw was found in wildfly-core. A management user could use the resolve-expression in the HAL Interface to read possible sensitive information from the Wildfly system.

This vulnerability requires a malicious user to previously have access to the system, especially access to the HAL interface via browser and logged with a management user who have access to the resolve-expression method, hence the moderate impact. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

Weakness: CWE-200. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7.

Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2023:5488, RHSA-2023:5485, RHSA-2023:5486, RHSA-2023:5484.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 23 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions

org.wildfly.core/wildfly-controller:15.0.32.Final-redhat-00001
eap7-wildfly-0:7.4.13-8.GA_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.15.20-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
eap7-wildfly-0:7.4.13-8.GA_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.15.20-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-wildfly-0:7.4.13-8.GA_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.15.20-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
RHSA-2023:5488
RHSA-2023:5485
RHSA-2023:5486
RHSA-2023:5484

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 23 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Wildfly administrators are recommended to use Vault, especially the Elytron subsystem, to store potential critical information such as DNS, IPs, and credentials.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 23 days ago·verify at source

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