CVE-2012-6551

medium

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.

References

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311210&version=12323282

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-4124

https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/changelog/activemq?cs=1404998

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59401

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1029.html

http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-580-release.html

http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/DISCUSS-ActiveMQ-out-of-the-box-Should-not-include-the-demos-tc4658044.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-04-21

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L