Apache ActiveMQ: Insufficient API restrictions on Jolokia allow authenticated users to perform RCE
40Vexday Risk Score
Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.
ssvc Attendepss 86%
exploitation probability
86%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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Affected
4 products
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 · Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 · Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 · Red Hat Process Automation 7
workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Fixed
3 products (11 components)
Middleware Containers for OpenShift · Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 · Red Hat Fuse 7.13.0
Not affected
9 products (12 components) — because the vulnerable code is not present in the product
Middleware Containers for OpenShift · A-MQ Clients 2 · Red Hat Data Grid 8 · Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 · and others 4
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.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache ActiveMQReferences
https://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2022-41678-announcement.txthttps://lists.apache.org/thread/7g17kwbtjl011mm4tr8bn1vnoq9wh4slhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00027.htmlhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240216-0004/https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/28/1