CVE-2015-6524

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% 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-255

Description

The LDAPLoginModule implementation in the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) in Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.10.1 allows wildcard operators in usernames, which allows remote attackers to obtain credentials via a brute force attack. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2014-3612 per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types.

Affected products

Apache ActiveMQ: 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.1, 5.3.2 (+12)
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23

References

http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2014-3612-announcement.txt
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168094.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168651.html
http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2014-3612-announcement.txt
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168094.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168651.html

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