# CVE-2026-85634: Wildfly-core: wildfly-core: deployer rbac role privilege escalation via path traversal in deployment name

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-15 · Updated: 2026-10-28

## Affected

- wildfly-server: version range not reported
- jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8: version range not reported
- jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk17-openshift-rhel8: version range not reported
- jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk8-openshift-rhel8: version range not reported
- wildfly-server: version range not reported
- wildfly-server: version range not reported
- wildfly-server: version range not reported
- wildfly-server: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the ContentRepositoryImpl.copyExplodedContent function of the wildfly-core library, which is used by WildFly and JBoss EAP to manage server deployments. The issue occurs when the library processes an unsanitized deployment name. Due to a missing containment check, an attacker with the Deployer RBAC role can use path traversal sequences to access files outside the restricted deployment directory. This can allow the attacker to delete arbitrary directories or create files with arbitrary content, leading to a full privilege escalation to the management SuperUser role.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wildfly-server, jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8, jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk17-openshift-rhel8 or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-85634
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2528476

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