High severity · published Jan 27, 2021
CVE-2021-26118
While investigating ARTEMIS-2964 it was found that the creation of advisory messages in the OpenWire protocol head of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.15.0 bypassed policy based access…
7.5
CVSS
3.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
While investigating ARTEMIS-2964 it was found that the creation of advisory messages in the OpenWire protocol head of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 2.15.0 bypassed policy based access control for the entire session. Production of advisory messages was not subject to access control in error.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.9% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AR
Artemis · Apache
2.15.0 · source: NVD
OW
Oncommand Workflow Automation · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26118
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-26118
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rafd5d7cf303772a0118865262946586921a65ebd98fc24f56c812574%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
Mailing List
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/activemq-users/202101.mbox/%3CCAH%2BvQmMUNnkiXv2-d3ucdErWOsdnLi6CgnK%2BVfixyJvTgTuYig%40mail.gmail.com%3E
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0002/
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