CVE-2012-6551 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-6551

The default configuration of Apache ActiveMQ before 5.8.0 enables a...

Vulnerability Description

The default configuration of Apache ActiveMQ before 5.8.0 enables a sample web application, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (broker resource consumption) via HTTP requests.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

activemq
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 21st, 2013
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.