# AMQP (RabbitMQ) Cleartext Authentication

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/amqp-rabbitmq-cleartext-authentication/30644>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** rhel, awx\
**Created:** [June 25, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/amqp-rabbitmq-cleartext-authentication/30644 "2019-06-25T08:55:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![P.Cookson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@P.Cookson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P.Cookson)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/amqp-rabbitmq-cleartext-authentication/30644/1 "2019-06-25T08:55:23Z")

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Hi all

Our Nessus security vulnerability scanner reports the following vulnerability since installing RabbitMQ as part of the AWX setup:

“AMQP Cleartext Authentication - The remote Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) service supports one or more authentication mechanisms that allow credentials to be sent in the clear”

I’m wondering why this would be an issue if AWX and RabbitMQ are only communicating “internally,” on the same machine, but has anyone else encountered this and know what the solution is?

Environment Details:

AWX 4.0.0  
Ansible 2.8.0  
RabbitMQ 3.7.15  
OS RHEL 7.6

Regards  
Phil