CVE-2022-3143: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

High severity, CVSS 7.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wildfly-elytron: possible timing attacks via use of unsafe comparator. A flaw was found in Wildfly-elytron. Wildfly-elytron uses java.util.Arrays.equals in several places, which is unsafe and vulnerable to timing attacks. To compare values securely, use java.security.MessageDigest.isEqual instead. This flaw allows an attacker to access secure information or impersonate an authed user.

Affected products

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: version 7.0.0 only
• Red Hat Wildfly Elytron: version 1.15.15 only

Published 2023-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.