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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2020-10727 EUVD-2022-4931GHSA-q9g8-9hpp-xc82

ActiveMQ Artemis has Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Published Jun 26, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in ActiveMQ Artemis management API from version 2.7.0 up until 2.12.0, where a user inadvertently stores passwords in plaintext in the Artemis shadow file (etc/artemis-users.properties file) when executing the `resetUsers` operation. A local attacker can use this flaw to read the contents of the Artemis shadow file.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat ActiveMQ Artemis version 2.7.0 up until 2.12.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.apache.activemq:artemis-commons >= 2.7.0, < 2.13.0 2.13.0 GHSA-q9g8-9hpp-xc82

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