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medium 5.5

CVE-2023-4066 json

Operator: passwords defined in secrets shown in statefulset yaml

published 2023-09-27 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-53956

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Red Hat's AMQ Broker, which stores certain passwords in a secret security-properties-prop-module, defined in ActivemqArtemisSecurity CR; however, they are shown in plaintext in the StatefulSet details yaml of AMQ Broker.

Patch / fix

  • Red Hat RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers 7.11.1-9, 7.11.1-12

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-2023-4066 updated cvss 5.5

Operator: Passwords defined in secrets shown in StatefulSet yaml

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 activemq-broker-operator activemq-broker-operator
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Middleware Containers for OpenShift amq7/amq-broker-rhel8-operator 7.11.1-9, amq7/amq-broker-rhel8-operator-bundle 7.11.1-12
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:4720

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
  • Red Hat Red Hat AMQ Broker 7

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-313 Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

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