CVE-2022-41678
Apache ActiveMQ: Insufficient API restrictions on Jolokia allow authenticated users to perform RCE
- Published
- Nov 28, 2023
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- apache
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.7%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
5CVE-2022-41678: Dangerous MBeans Accessible via Jolokia API in Apache ActiveMQ
- CVE-2022-41678Exploit
CVE-2022-41678 是 Apache ActiveMQ 中的一个远程代码执行漏洞。该漏洞允许攻击者通过 JMX (Java Management Extensions) 接口修改 Log4j 配置或 JFR (Java Flight Recorder) 配置,从而写入恶意的 JSP webshell 到服务器的 web 目录中,最终实现远程代码执行。
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