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CVE-2012-3467

Improper Authentication

Published: Aug 27, 2012 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
6.4 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3467
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html

Apache QPID 0.14, 0.16, and earlier uses a NullAuthenticator mechanism to authenticate catch-up shadow connections to AMQP brokers, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
QpidApache*0.16 (including)
QpidApache0.5 (including)0.5 (including)
QpidApache0.6 (including)0.6 (including)
QpidApache0.14 (including)0.14 (including)
MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2RedHatmrg-release-0:2.2.0-1.el5*
MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2RedHatpython-qpid-0:0.14-11.el5*
MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2RedHatqpid-cpp-mrg-0:0.14-22.el5*
MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2RedHatqpid-java-0:0.18-2.el5*
MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2RedHatqpid-jca-0:0.18-2.el5*
MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2RedHatqpid-qmf-0:0.14-14.el5*
MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2RedHatqpid-tools-0:0.14-6.el5*
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2RedHatmrg-release-0:2.2.0-1.el6*
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2RedHatqpid-cpp-0:0.14-22.el6_3*
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2RedHatqpid-java-0:0.18-2.el6*
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2RedHatqpid-jca-0:0.18-2.el6*
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2RedHatqpid-qmf-0:0.14-14.el6_3*
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2RedHatxerces-c-0:3.0.1-20.el6*
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2RedHatxqilla-0:2.2.3-8.el6*
Qpid-cppUbuntuprecise*
Qpid-cppUbuntuquantal*
Qpid-cppUbuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References

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