Cleartext storage of sensitive information in ActiveMQ Artemis - CVE-2020-10727
Published: July 24, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31797
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10727
CWE-ID: CWE-312
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to passwords of application users.
The vulnerability exists due to ActiveMQ Artemis management API stores passwords in plaintext in the Artemis shadow file (etc/artemis-users.properties file) when executing the `resetUsers` operation. A local user can view contents of the Artemis shadow file and obtain passwords of application users.
Affected software
ActiveMQ Artemis
AMQ Broker
AMQ Broker
How to mitigate CVE-2020-10727
Install updates from vendor's website.
ActiveMQ Artemis - update to 2.12.0
AMQ Broker - addressed in versions 7.4.4, 7.7
AMQ Broker - addressed in versions 7.4.4, 7.7