GHSA-q9g8-9hpp-xc82

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    GHSA-q9g8-9hpp-xc82

    Published: 24 May 2022Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary: ActiveMQ Artemis has Insufficiently Protected Credentials

    Details: 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: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10727, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1827200, https://github.com/apache/artemis, https://issues.redhat.com/browse/ENTMQBR-3435, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0001

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.apache.activemq:artemis-commons

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.apache.activemq/artemis-commons

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 2.7.0
    Fixed -2.13.0

    Affected versions

    2.10.0
    2.10.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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