Improper Authentication Affecting activemq package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.15% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-ACTIVEMQ-6097615
  • published24 Jul 2024
  • disclosed28 Nov 2023

Introduced: 28 Nov 2023

CVE-2022-41678  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:20.04 activemq.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream activemq package and not the activemq package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Once an user is authenticated on Jolokia, he can potentially trigger arbitrary code execution. 

In details, in ActiveMQ configurations, jetty allows org.jolokia.http.AgentServlet to handler request to /api/jolokia

org.jolokia.http.HttpRequestHandler#handlePostRequest is able to create JmxRequest through JSONObject. And calls to org.jolokia.http.HttpRequestHandler#executeRequest.

Into deeper calling stacks, org.jolokia.handler.ExecHandler#doHandleRequest can be invoked through refection. This could lead to RCE through via various mbeans. One example is unrestricted deserialization in jdk.management.jfr.FlightRecorderMXBeanImpl which exists on Java version above 11.

1 Call newRecording.

2 Call setConfiguration. And a webshell data hides in it.

3 Call startRecording.

4 Call copyTo method. The webshell will be written to a .jsp file.

The mitigation is to restrict (by default) the actions authorized on Jolokia, or disable Jolokia. A more restrictive Jolokia configuration has been defined in default ActiveMQ distribution. We encourage users to upgrade to ActiveMQ distributions version including updated Jolokia configuration: 5.16.6, 5.17.4, 5.18.0, 6.0.0.

CVSS Scores

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