Artemis
CVE-2017-12174
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. EPSS exploitation probability: 7.41%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could cause denial of service by exhausting system resources by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability could allow attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 2 packages in maven
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError. Affected products include: Apache Artemis, Redhat Hornetq, Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform. Version information: before 2.4.0.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
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EPSS
VulDB
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
In Apache ActiveMQ Artemis prior to 2.20.0 or 2.19.1, an attacker could partially disrupt availability (DoS) through unc
Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit Apache ActiveMQ Artemis (2.11.0-2.44.0) and Apache Artemis (2.50.0-2.51.0)
Session hijacking in Apache ActiveMQ Artemis and Apache Artemis allows unauthenticated remote attackers to steal authent
The optional ActiveMQ LDAP login module can be configured to use anonymous access to the LDAP server. Rated high severit
Apache ActiveMQ Artemis allows access to diagnostic information and controls through MBeans, which are also exposed thro
Pre-authentication queue deletion in Apache Artemis and Apache ActiveMQ Artemis allows unauthenticated remote attackers
Cluster credential exposure in Apache ActiveMQ Artemis and Apache Artemis allows a network-adjacent unauthenticated atta
While investigating ARTEMIS-2964 it was found that the creation of advisory messages in the OpenWire protocol head of Ap
In Apache ActiveMQ Artemis prior to 2.24.0, an attacker could show malicious content and/or redirect users to a maliciou
Pre-authentication information disclosure in Apache ActiveMQ Artemis and Apache Artemis exposes cluster topology details
Unauthenticated remote attackers can create arbitrary durable queues on Apache Artemis and Apache ActiveMQ Artemis broke
A flaw was found in AMQ Broker. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authent
GitHub PoC
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