Missing Authentication for Critical Function Affecting eap8-activemq-artemis-dto package, versions <0:2.40.0-6.redhat_00012.1.el9eap


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EAP8ACTIVEMQARTEMISDTO-16759096
  • published19 May 2026
  • disclosed4 Mar 2026

Introduced: 4 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-27446  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-306  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 eap8-activemq-artemis-dto to version 0:2.40.0-6.redhat_00012.1.el9eap or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2026:18055.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream eap8-activemq-artemis-dto package and not the eap8-activemq-artemis-dto package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306) vulnerability in Apache Artemis, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use the Core protocol to force a target broker to establish an outbound Core federation connection to an attacker-controlled rogue broker. This could potentially result in message injection into any queue and/or message exfiltration from any queue via the rogue broker. This impacts environments that allow both:

  • incoming Core protocol connections from untrusted sources to the broker

  • outgoing Core protocol connections from the broker to untrusted targets

This issue affects:

  • Apache Artemis from 2.50.0 through 2.51.0

  • Apache ActiveMQ Artemis from 2.11.0 through 2.44.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to Apache Artemis version 2.52.0, which fixes the issue.

The issue can be mitigated by one of the following:

  • Remove Core protocol support from any acceptor receiving connections from untrusted sources. Incoming Core protocol connections are supported by default via the "artemis" acceptor listening on port 61616. See the "protocols" URL parameter configured for the acceptor. An acceptor URL without this parameter supports all protocols by default, including Core.

  • Use two-way SSL (i.e. certificate-based authentication) in order to force every client to present the proper SSL certificate when establishing a connection before any message protocol handshake is attempted. This will prevent unauthenticated exploitation of this vulnerability.

  • Implement and deploy a Core interceptor to deny all Core downstream federation connect packets. Such packets have a type of (int) -16 or (byte) 0xfffffff0. Documentation for interceptors is available at  https://artemis.apache.org/components/artemis/documentation/latest/intercepting-operations.html .

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