CVE-2017-12174

HIGH

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis and HornetQ < 2.4.0 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via UDP Discovery

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0741
EPSS Percentile 91.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (7)
apache/activemq_artemis < 2.4.0
org.apache.activemq/artemis-native 0 - 2.4.0Maven
org.hornetq/hornetq-server 0 - 2.4.0.FinalMaven
redhat/hornetq < 2.4.0
redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform 6.4.0
redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform 7.1.0
redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform 6.0.0
Published Mar 07, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026