Red Hat AMQ Broker Exposes Passwords in StatefulSet YAML (CVE20234066)
CVE-2023-4066 Published on September 27, 2023
Operator: passwords defined in secrets shown in statefulset yaml
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-4066 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public. 33 days later.
Weakness Type
Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
The application stores sensitive information in cleartext in a file, or on disk. The sensitive information could be read by attackers with access to the file, or with physical or administrator access to the raw disk. Even if the information is encoded in a way that is not human-readable, certain techniques could determine which encoding is being used, then decode the information.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-4066
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Affected Versions
Red Hat RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers:- Version 7.11.1-9 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 7.11.1-12 and below * is unaffected.
Exploit Probability
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