Resource management error in ActiveMQ



| Updated: 2020-08-11
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2011-4905
CWE-ID CWE-399
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 ActiveMQ
Server applications / Mail servers

Vendor Apache Foundation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU44417

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-4905

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

Apache ActiveMQ before 5.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor exhaustion and broker crash or hang) by sending many openwire failover:tcp:// connection requests.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

ActiveMQ: 1.1 - 5.5.0

CPE2.3 External links

https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/2
https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/6
https://secunia.com/advisories/47112
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1209700
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1211844
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50904
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3294


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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