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.
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Description 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.
Title Apache Shiro: Brute force attack possible to determine valid user names
Weaknesses CWE-208
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-10T10:22:44.721Z

Reserved: 2026-01-17T18:01:53.140Z

Link: CVE-2026-23901

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-02-10T10:15:59.240

Modified: 2026-02-10T10:15:59.240

Link: CVE-2026-23901

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