Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Affecting org.wildfly.security:wildfly-elytron-password-impl package, versions [0,2.6.10.SP1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.82% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWILDFLYSECURITY-19665498
  • published10 Sept 2026
  • disclosed21 Aug 2026
  • creditLiuBo-keep

Introduced: 21 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-19611  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-173  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.wildfly.security:wildfly-elytron-password-impl to version 2.6.10.SP1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding in its password normalization, which applies Unicode NFKC (compatibility) normalization before hashing and so folds fullwidth and other compatibility characters to their ASCII equivalents. An attacker with access to the stored password hashes can shrink the effective keyspace and test ASCII dictionary candidates against passwords originally set with compatibility characters, since distinct inputs such as A (U+FF21) and A (U+0041) produce the same hash. This affects only credentials whose passwords contain compatibility characters such as fullwidth letters or digits, and the attacker must already possess the hashes to run the offline dictionary attack.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1