Nov. 10, 2023, 6:28 p.m. |

FortiGuard Labs | FortiGuard Center - Threat Signal Report fortiguard.fortinet.com

What is the Attack?

Ransomware attackers are targeting servers running outdated and vulnerable versions of Apache ActiveMQ by exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability (CVE-2023-46604). CVE-2023-46604 is an unauthenticated deserialization vulnerability in ActiveMQ's OpenWire transport connector. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the same privileges of the ActiveMQ server.


What is the Vendor Solution?

Apache has released the patches to address CVE-2023-46604 and can be found here.


What FortiGuard Coverage is available?

FortiGuard Labs has released an …

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