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.
Published: 2018-03-07
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 6.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-gc96-h5pr-839j Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Artemis and HornetQ
History

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Apache artemis
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:apache:activemq_artemis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:apache:artemis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Apache activemq Artemis
Apache artemis

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7::el7 cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.1::el7

Subscriptions

Apache Artemis
Redhat Enterprise Linux Hornetq Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Cd
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:28:16.599Z

Reserved: 2017-08-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-12174

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-03-07T22:29:00.243

Modified: 2026-06-15T13:03:40.357

Link: CVE-2017-12174

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-02-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-12174 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-20

    Improper Input Validation

  • CWE-400

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption