CVE-2015-5254

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 38.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.13.0 does not restrict the classes that can be serialized in the broker, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized Java Message Service (JMS) ObjectMessage object.

Affected products

Apache ActiveMQ: 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.1, 5.3.2 (+18)
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
Openshift: 2.0

References

http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2015-5254-announcement.txt
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174371.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174537.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0489.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2035.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2036.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3524
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/08/6
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05385680
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-6013

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