CVE-2020-10727: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

May 24, 2022 (updated June 24, 2022)

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.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1827200
github.com/advisories/GHSA-q9g8-9hpp-xc82
issues.redhat.com/browse/ENTMQBR-3435
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10727
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0001/

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