Access Control Bypass Affecting org.apache.activemq:artemis-openwire-protocol package, versions [,2.16.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEACTIVEMQ-1065976
  • published 28 Jan 2021
  • disclosed 28 Jan 2021
  • credit Francesco Marchioni

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.activemq:artemis-openwire-protocol to version 2.16.0 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.activemq:artemis-openwire-protocol is a package for activemq.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass. It was found that the creation of advisory messages in the OpenWire protocol head of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis bypassed policy based access control for the entire session. Production of advisory messages was not subject to access control in error.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

7.5 high