High severity · published Mar 7, 2018
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 created when receiving an unexpected multicast…
7.5
CVSS
6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)6.0% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AR
Artemis · Apache
before 2.4.0 · source: NVD
HO
Hornetq · Redhat
before 2.4.0 · source: NVD
JE
Jboss Enterprise Application Platform · Redhat
6.4.0; 7.1.0; 7.1.0; 6.0.0; 6.4.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12174
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12174
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478
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