CVE-2012-6551

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-04-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The default configuration of Apache ActiveMQ before 5.8.0 enables a sample web application, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (broker resource consumption) via HTTP requests.

Affected products

Apache ActiveMQ: through 5.7.0; 4.0, 4.0-m4, 4.0-rc2, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1.0 (+13)

References

http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/DISCUSS-ActiveMQ-out-of-the-box-Should-not-include-the-demos-tc4658044.html
http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-580-release.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1029.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59401
https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/changelog/activemq?cs=1404998
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-4124
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311210&version=12323282
http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/DISCUSS-ActiveMQ-out-of-the-box-Should-not-include-the-demos-tc4658044.html
http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-580-release.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1029.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59401
https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/changelog/activemq?cs=1404998

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