Improper Authentication Affecting activemq package, versions [,5.15.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ACTIVEMQ-2382493
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-13920  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade activemq to version 5.15.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. Apache ActiveMQ uses LocateRegistry.createRegistry() to create the JMX RMI registry and binds the server to the "jmxrmi" entry. It is possible to connect to the registry without authentication and call the rebind method to rebind jmxrmi to something else. If an attacker creates another server to proxy the original, and bound that, he effectively becomes a man in the middle and is able to intercept the credentials when an user connects. Upgrade to Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.12.

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