What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-3579

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Apollo 1.x before 1.7.1 allows remote consumers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving an XPath based selector when dequeuing XML messages.

Affected products

• Apache Activemq Apollo: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (+2)

References

• http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2014-3579-announcement.txt
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/428
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72508
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100721
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APLO-366
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a859563f05fbe7c31916b3178c2697165bd9bbf5a65d1cf62aef27d2%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
• http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2014-3579-announcement.txt
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/428
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72508
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100721
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APLO-366
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a859563f05fbe7c31916b3178c2697165bd9bbf5a65d1cf62aef27d2%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E

Get alerted when CVE-2014-3579 or the next vulnerability affects your stack