CWE-313
Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in a file, or on disk.
CVE-2023-4066 (GCVE-0-2023-4066)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-27 20:54
Modified
2025-10-10 00:22
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-313 - Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
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.
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Impacted products
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| Red Hat | RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers |
Unaffected: 7.11.1-9 < * cpe:/a:redhat:rhosemc:1.0::el8 |
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No mitigation information available for this CWE.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.