CredentialIdentityFactory.NULL_IDENTITY does not get initialized and causes NullPointerExceptions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-4253 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-4253 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Components: Security Affects Versions: 8.2.0.Final Environment: Java 1.8.0_25 Reporter: Rostyslav Smirnov Assignee: Bartosz Baranowski Fix For: 10.0.0.Final org.jboss.security.identity.extensions.CredentialIdentityFactory.NULL_IDENTITY does not get initialized to an empty identity due to initialization method returning a reference to NULL_IDENTITY, which has not initialized yet, resulting in null pointer. This causes NullPointerException in org.jboss.security.SecurityContextUtil.clearIdentities() and org.jboss.security.SecurityContextUtil.getIdentities() methods.