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OESA-2023-1925 (CVE-2022-41678)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-12-15 11:06 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:06 – Source website

Summary

activemq security update

Details

The most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server.

Security Fix(es):

Once an user is authenticated on Jolokia, he can potentially trigger arbitrary code execution.

In details, in ActiveMQ configurations, jetty allows org.jolokia.http.AgentServlet to handler request to /api/jolokia

org.jolokia.http.HttpRequestHandler#handlePostRequest is able to create JmxRequest through JSONObject. And calls to org.jolokia.http.HttpRequestHandler#executeRequest.

Into deeper calling stacks, org.jolokia.handler.ExecHandler#doHandleRequest is able to invoke through refection.

And then, RCE is able to be achieved via jdk.management.jfr.FlightRecorderMXBeanImpl which exists on Java version above 11.

1 Call newRecording.

2 Call setConfiguration. And a webshell data hides in it.

3 Call startRecording.

4 Call copyTo method. The webshell will be written to a .jsp file.

The mitigation is to restrict (by default) the actions authorized on Jolokia, or disable Jolokia. A more restrictive Jolokia configuration has been defined in default ActiveMQ distribution. We encourage users to upgrade to ActiveMQ distributions version including updated Jolokia configuration: 5.16.6, 5.17.4, 5.18.0, 6.0.0. (CVE-2022-41678)

Severity

8.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41678	ADVISORY

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CVE-2022-41678 (GCVE-0-2022-41678)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-28 15:08 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:46

Title

Apache ActiveMQ: Insufficient API restrictions on Jolokia allow authenticated users to perform RCE

Summary

Once an user is authenticated on Jolokia, he can potentially trigger arbitrary code execution. In details, in ActiveMQ configurations, jetty allows org.jolokia.http.AgentServlet to handler request to /api/jolokia org.jolokia.http.HttpRequestHandler#handlePostRequest is able to create JmxRequest through JSONObject. And calls to org.jolokia.http.HttpRequestHandler#executeRequest. Into deeper calling stacks, org.jolokia.handler.ExecHandler#doHandleRequest can be invoked through refection. This could lead to RCE through via various mbeans. One example is unrestricted deserialization in jdk.management.jfr.FlightRecorderMXBeanImpl which exists on Java version above 11. 1 Call newRecording. 2 Call setConfiguration. And a webshell data hides in it. 3 Call startRecording. 4 Call copyTo method. The webshell will be written to a .jsp file. The mitigation is to restrict (by default) the actions authorized on Jolokia, or disable Jolokia. A more restrictive Jolokia configuration has been defined in default ActiveMQ distribution. We encourage users to upgrade to ActiveMQ distributions version including updated Jolokia configuration: 5.16.6, 5.17.4, 5.18.0, 6.0.0.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.d…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread/7g17kwbtjl011mm4t…	vendor-advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024021…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache ActiveMQ	Affected: 0 , < 5.16.6 (semver) Affected: 5.17.0 , < 5.17.4 (semver) Unaffected: 5.18.0 Unaffected: 6.0.0

Credits

wangxin@threatbook.cn wangzhendong@threatbook.cn honglonglong@threatbook.cn Matei "Mal" Badanoiu

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