StackOverflowError at EJB3 interceptor in JBoss EAP 4.3

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The following stack overflows have been encountered. The first stack overflow was highlighted in #1 below followed by another one #2. Then #3 kept happening generating GB of logs until the node was re-started.

  1. (12/23 04:16:15:301):[WARN] {u=SystemUser, t=7196996} Caught unhandled RuntimeException in org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainerInvocation method loginLocal - java.lang.StackOverflowError
*** Start of original stack trace ***
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.StackOverflowError
 at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InvocationContextImpl.proceed(InvocationContextImpl.java:174)
...
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
 at java.util.Hashtable.get(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.Properties.getProperty(Unknown Source)

  2. 
(12/23 04:23:32:746): [WARN] {u=SystemUser, t=7201743} Caught unhandled RuntimeException in org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainerInvocation method loginLocal - java.lang.StackOverflowError
*** Start of original stack trace ***
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.StackOverflowError
 at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InvocationContextImpl.proceed(InvocationContextImpl.java:174)
...
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
 at java.util.Hashtable.get(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.Properties.getProperty(Unknown Source)

  3. 
(12/23 04:27:05:883):{WorkManager(2)-271930} [WARN] {u=SystemUser, t=7204175} sendObjectMessage could not send message using runAs javax.ejb.EJBAccessException: Authentication failure
*** Start of original stack trace ***
javax.ejb.EJBAccessException: Authentication failure
 at org.jboss.ejb3.security.Ejb3AuthenticationInterceptor.handleGeneralSecurityException(Ejb3AuthenticationInterceptor.java:68)
Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBAccessException: Authentication failure
 at org.jboss.ejb3.security.Ejb3AuthenticationInterceptor.handleGeneralSecurityException(Ejb3AuthenticationInterceptor.java:68)
...
Caused by: javax.security.auth.login.LoginException: java.lang.StackOverflowError
 at java.util.Hashtable.get(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.Properties.getProperty(Unknown Source)

Environment

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 4.3_CP08

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