CVE-2017-12174
It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 6.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.0% · top 6.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Red Hat, Inc. · HornetQ/Artemis
- affected before 2.4.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.activemq:artemis-nativeGHSA-gc96-h5pr-839j (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.hornetq:hornetq-serverGHSA-gc96-h5pr-839j (opens in a new tab)
References
12
- RHSA-2018:0479 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0481 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0269 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0270 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0271 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0268 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0480 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0275 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [activemq-commits] 20210127 [activemq-website] branch master updated: Publish CVE-2021-26118 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [activemq-commits] 20210127 [activemq-website] branch master updated: Publish CVE-2021-26117 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3937 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gc96-h5pr-839j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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