CVE-2014-3612

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The LDAPLoginModule implementation in the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) in Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.10.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by logging in with an empty password and valid username, which triggers an unauthenticated bind. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. See CVE-2015-6524 for the use of wildcard operators in usernames.

Affected products

Apache ActiveMQ: 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.1, 5.3.2 (+12)

References

http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2014-3612-announcement.txt
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0137.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0138.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/427
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72513
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a859563f05fbe7c31916b3178c2697165bd9bbf5a65d1cf62aef27d2%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2014-3612-announcement.txt
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0137.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0138.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/427
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72513
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a859563f05fbe7c31916b3178c2697165bd9bbf5a65d1cf62aef27d2%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E

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