SB2020062524 - Multiple vulnerabilities in AMQ Broker 7



SB2020062524 - Multiple vulnerabilities in AMQ Broker 7

Published: June 25, 2020 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2020062524
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 67% Low 33%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-1953)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure configuration of third-party library for parsing YAML files. A remote attacker with ability to pass YAML file to the application can inject and execute arbitrary code on the system.



2) Cleartext storage of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10727)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to passwords of application users.

The vulnerability exists due to ActiveMQ Artemis management API stores passwords in plaintext in the Artemis shadow file (etc/artemis-users.properties file) when executing the `resetUsers` operation. A local user can view contents of the Artemis shadow file and obtain passwords of application users.


3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11612)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within ZlibDecoders in Netty while decoding a ZlibEncoded byte stream. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion by passing an overly large ZlibEncoded byte stream to the Netty server, forcing the server to allocate all of its free memory to a single decoder.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.