NPE might occur when a null object is returned from the aesh Console -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-1865 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-1865 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Components: CLI Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Alpha3 Reporter: Ståle Pedersen Assignee: Alexey Loubyansky Fix For: 8.0.0.Beta1 In cli/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/cli/impl/Console.java 177 - return console.read(prompt).getBuffer(); 178 + ConsoleOutput output = console.read(prompt); 179 + return output != null ? output.getBuffer() : null;