Improper Authentication Affecting qpid package, versions [,0.18)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QPID-2384869
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3467  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qpid to version 0.18 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. Apache QPID 0.14, 0.16, and earlier uses a NullAuthenticator mechanism to authenticate catch-up shadow connections to AMQP brokers, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication.

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