Observable Timing Discrepancy vulnerability in Apache Shiro.
This issue affects Apache Shiro: from 1.*, 2.* before 2.0.7.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.7 or later, which fixes the issue.
Prior to Shiro 2.0.7, code paths for non-existent vs. existing users are different enough,
that a brute-force attack may be able to tell, by timing the requests only, determine if
the request failed because of a non-existent user vs. wrong password.
The most likely attack vector is a local attack only.
Shiro security model https://shiro.apache.org/security-model.html#username_enumeration discusses this as well.
Typically, brute force attack can be mitigated at the infrastructure level.
CVSS Score
2.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-10
Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name vulnerability in Apache Shiro.
This issue affects Apache Shiro: before 2.0.7.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.7, which fixes the issue.
The issue only effects static files. If static files are served from a case-insensitive filesystem,
such as default macOS setup, static files may be accessed by varying the case of the filename in the request.
If only lower-case (common default) filters are present in Shiro, they may be bypassed this way.
Shiro 2.0.7 and later has a new parameters to remediate this issue
shiro.ini: filterChainResolver.caseInsensitive = true
application.propertie: shiro.caseInsensitive=true
Shiro 3.0.0 and later (upcoming) makes this the default.
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-02-09