Failed to add artifact '${org.jboss.eap:wildfly-security-vault-tool}' when adding password to Vault in EAP 7.3 Update 4

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP)
  • 7.3 Update 4

Issue

• After upgrade to JBoss EAP 7.3 Update 4 we are seeing below error when adding a password to vault.

     ./vault.sh --keystore EAP_HOME/standalone/vault/vault.keystore --keystore-password vault22 --alias vault --vault-block vb --attribute password --sec-attr 0penS3sam3 --enc-dir EAP_HOME/vault --iteration 120 --salt 1234abcd
    =========================================================================  
     JBoss Vault 
  
     JBOSS_HOME: EAP_HOME 
  
     JAVA: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.252.b09-1.fc32.x86_64/bin/java
    =========================================================================
    Exception in thread "main" org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoadException: Error loading module from EAP_HOME/modules/system/layers/base/.overlays/layer-base-jboss-eap-7.3.4.CP/org/jboss/as/vault-tool/main/module.xml
        at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleXml(ModuleXmlParser.java:337)
        at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleXml(ModuleXmlParser.java:293)
        at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleXml(ModuleXmlParser.java:254)
        at org.jboss.modules.LocalModuleFinder.parseModuleXmlFile(LocalModuleFinder.java:250)
        at org.jboss.modules.LocalModuleFinder.lambda$findModule$1(LocalModuleFinder.java:195)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.jboss.modules.LocalModuleFinder.findModule(LocalModuleFinder.java:195)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.findModule0(ModuleLoader.java:696)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.findModule(ModuleLoader.java:689)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.loadModuleLocal(ModuleLoader.java:499)
        at org.jboss.modules.DelegatingModuleLoader.preloadModule(DelegatingModuleLoader.java:57)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.loadModule(ModuleLoader.java:295)
        at org.jboss.modules.Main.main(Main.java:371)
    Caused by: org.jboss.modules.xml.XmlPullParserException: Failed to add artifact '${org.jboss.eap:wildfly-security-vault-tool}' (position: END_TAG seen ...   <artifact name="${org.jboss.eap:wildfly-security-vault-tool}"/>... @32:72) caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: ${org.jboss.eap:wildfly-security-vault-tool}
        at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseArtifact(ModuleXmlParser.java:1054)
        at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseResources(ModuleXmlParser.java:937)
        at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleContents(ModuleXmlParser.java:697)
        at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseDocument(ModuleXmlParser.java:469)
        at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleXml(ModuleXmlParser.java:335)
        ... 12 more
    Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: ${org.jboss.eap:wildfly-security-vault-tool}
        at org.jboss.modules.maven.ArtifactCoordinates.fromString(ArtifactCoordinates.java:83)
        at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseArtifact(ModuleXmlParser.java:1047)
        ... 16 more
  

Resolution

A One Off Patch for EAP 7.3 Update 4 is available for download from This content is not included.JBoss EAP software download page. A permanent fix for the issue will be included in Update 5+.

Root Cause

This content is not included.JBEAP-20658.

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