apache/artemis · Security
ActiveMQ Artemis has Insufficiently Protected Credentials
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-q9g8-9hpp-xc82
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-10727
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
CWEs
- CWE-312 · Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
- CWE-522 · Insufficiently Protected Credentials