Description
A flaw was found in WildFly Elytron. Password hashing and verification normalize input with Unicode NFKC, which can collapse fullwidth characters to ASCII equivalents. A remote attacker can more easily guess affected passwords by using an ASCII-only dictionary against accounts whose passwords were intended to include those non-ASCII characters, leading to unauthorized access.
References10
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69440
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69470
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70257
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83612
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95759
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95760
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95761
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95762
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95887
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-19611
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.4
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 64 · as of 10 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-173
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