Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

eclipse-ee4j/glassfish

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Fixes

CVEs

CRITICAL

Peak severity

20.0%

Coverage

Highlights

Auth Bypass: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.

appserver/admingui: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Brute Force: The platform has historically suffered from broken authentication mechanisms that lack rate limits on failed logins, exposing the admin panel to automated credential guessing. Remediation introduced exponential delays and concurrent request throttling. This is a critical risk area as confirmed by CVE-2024-9342.

Auth Bypass: Improper resolution of client IP addresses behind reverse proxies (via headers like X-Forwarded-For) historically allowed attackers to bypass brute-force and IP-based access protections. Addressing this required introducing explicit proxy-trust configurations and validating remote host IPs uniformly.

Denial of Service: Unbounded memory growth and user enumeration risks existed when tracking failed login attempts for non-existent users. This was corrected by funneling failed attempts for invalid users into a single sentinel key rather than instantiating unique map entries per username.