CVE-2023-4066 (GCVE-0-2023-4066)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-27 20:54 – Updated: 2025-11-20 19:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Operator: passwords defined in secrets shown in statefulset yaml
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-09 14:33 UTC
CWE
- CWE-313 - Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4720 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4066 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224677 | issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers |
Unaffected:
7.11.1-9 , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:rhosemc:1.0::el8 |
||
| Red Hat | RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers |
Unaffected:
7.11.1-12 , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:rhosemc:1.0::el8 |
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 |
cpe:/a:redhat:amq_broker:7
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Date Public
2023-08-23 00:00
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- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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