CVE-2020-10727: Apache Artemis

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache Artemis: from 2.7.0, up to and including 2.12.0
• Netapp Oncommand Workflow Automation: affected versions not specified

Published 2020-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.