GHSA-q9g8-9hpp-xc82MediumCVSS 5.5

ActiveMQ Artemis has Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Published
May 24, 2022
Last Modified
July 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-10727 →

📋 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 products1

  • maven/org.apache.activemq:artemis-commons:>= 2.7.0, <= 2.12.0

🔗 References (5)