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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-26118

While investigating ARTEMIS-2964 it was found that the creation of advisory messages in the OpenWire protocol head of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.15.0 bypassed policy based access control for the entire session. Production of advisory messages was not subject to access control in error.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:08 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-26118

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Jan 2021, 19:15 UTC

While investigating ARTEMIS-2964 it was found that the creation of advisory messages in the OpenWire protocol head of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.15.0 bypassed policy based access control for the entire session. Production of advisory messages was not subject to access control in error.

osv:CVE-2021-26118
Complete source record
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  "id": "f67197f1266d6c2ad837e127283aa79c6e0678dcd5fa48e4a0e80e6066cd1c6c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-26118",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-26118",
    "summary": "While investigating ARTEMIS-2964 it was found that the creation of advisory messages in the OpenWire protocol head of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.15.0 bypassed policy based access control for the entire session. Production of advisory messages was not subject to access control in error.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-26118",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-26118",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-26118",
        "GHSA-q7fr-vqhq-v5xr"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/artemis",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "a549fcedde9d1f465ee92b99440b84436574a228"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "a549fcedde9d1f465ee92b99440b84436574a228"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:artemis:2.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.15.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.15.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.15.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-26118.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:49.159611894Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rafd5d7cf303772a0118865262946586921a65ebd98fc24f56c812574%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E",
        "https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/activemq-users/202101.mbox/%3CCAH%2BvQmMUNnkiXv2-d3ucdErWOsdnLi6CgnK%2BVfixyJvTgTuYig%40mail.gmail.com%3E",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0002/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-26118",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436941,
  "published_at": "2021-01-27T19:15:13.78+00:00"
}