CVE-2023-46604 (GCVE-0-2023-46604)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-27 14:59 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:50
VLAI?
Title
Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ActiveMQ Legacy OpenWire Module: Unbounded deserialization causes ActiveMQ to be vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack
Summary
The Java OpenWire protocol marshaller is vulnerable to Remote Code
Execution. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker with network
access to either a Java-based OpenWire broker or client to run arbitrary
shell commands by manipulating serialized class types in the OpenWire
protocol to cause either the client or the broker (respectively) to
instantiate any class on the classpath.
Users are recommended to upgrade
both brokers and clients to version 5.15.16, 5.16.7, 5.17.6, or 5.18.3
which fixes this issue.
Severity ?
10 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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| Apache Software Foundation | Apache ActiveMQ |
Affected:
5.18.0 , < 5.18.3
(semver)
Affected: 5.17.0 , < 5.17.6 (semver) Affected: 5.16.0 , < 5.16.7 (semver) Affected: 0 , < 5.15.16 (semver) |
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Credits
yejie@threatbook.cn
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