ActiveMQ Artemis has Insufficiently Protected Credentials

published 2020-06-26 6 y ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-q9g8-9hpp-xc82 , EUVD-2022-4931

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits: 0; none known

A flaw was found in ActiveMQ Artemis management API from version 2.7.0 up until 2.12.0, where a user inadvertently stores passwords in plaintext in the Artemis shadow file (etc/artemis-users.properties file) when executing the `resetUsers` operation. A local attacker can use this flaw to read the contents of the Artemis shadow file.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

maven org.apache.activemq:artemis-commons 2.13.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-10727 updated 2026-10-12 cvss 5.5

broker: resetUsers operation stores password in plain text

Red Hat AMQ
fixed: vendor fix “When resetting a user an alternative is to use the broker instance CLI `/bin/artemis user reset` which is not affected by the flaw” RHSA-2020:2751

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	2.1	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.apache.activemq:artemis-commons	>=2.7.0, <2.13.0	2.13.0

Affected products

Red Hat ActiveMQ Artemis

Classification

Weakness

CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

issues.redhat.com /browse/ENTMQBR-3435
web, permissions-required
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=1827200
web, issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
security.netapp.com /advisory/ntap-20210827-0001/
third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10727
advisory
github.com /apache/artemis
package
security.netapp.com /advisory/ntap-20210827-0001
web

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary