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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-10727

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:37 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-10727

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Jun 2020, 16:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2020-10727
Complete source record
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