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medium 6.5

CVE-2025-27391 json

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Passwords leaking from broker properties in the debug log

published 2025-04-09 19 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-10665 , GHSA-pm4j-p7pm-fpvx

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Artemis. All the values of the broker properties are logged when the org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.config.impl.ConfigurationImpl logger has the debug level enabled.

This issue affects Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: from 1.5.1 before 2.40.0. It can be mitigated by restricting log access to only trusted users.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.40.0, which fixes the issue.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.activemq:artemis-project 2.40.0
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.40.0

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-2025-27391 updated cvss 5.5

org.apache.activemq/artemis-core-client: Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Passwords leaking from broker properties in the debug log

  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 artemis-core-client Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 artemis-core-client Red Hat AMQ Clients artemis-core-client Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 quarkus-cxf-bom, quarkus-camel-bom Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 artemis-core-client Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 artemis-core-client
    +7 more products
    Red Hat Fuse 7 artemis-core-client Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 artemis-core-client Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 artemis-core-client Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 artemis-core-client Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack artemis-core-client Red Hat Process Automation 7 artemis-core-client Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 artemis-core-client
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA 4.0 6.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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-project
>=1.5.1, <2.40.0
2.40.0

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

Sources

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