World Readable User Role Mapping Vulnerability in EAP 7 by Red Hat

CVE-2017-12167

Summary

In EAP 7, prior to version 7.0.9, a security flaw was identified where property-based configuration files for both management and application realms were set with world-readable permissions. This exposure allowed all authenticated users to access sensitive information regarding user-role mappings, potentially leading to unauthorized privilege escalation and compromising user data security.

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