CVE-2012-4446

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The default configuration for Apache Qpid 0.20 and earlier, when the federation_tag attribute is enabled, accepts AMQP connections without checking the source user ID, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and have other unspecified impact via an AMQP request.

Affected products

Apache Qpid: through 0.20; 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.10 (+9)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0561.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0562.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52516
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851355
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-4631
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0561.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0562.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52516
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851355
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-4631

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