CVE-2015-5254

critical

Description

Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.13.0 does not restrict the classes that can be serialized in the broker, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized Java Message Service (JMS) ObjectMessage object.

References

https://github.com/radsih/activemq-cve-lab

https://github.com/Catherines77/ActiveMQ-EXPtools

https://github.com/4rji/CVEs

https://github.com/guigui237/Exploitation-de-la-vuln-rabilit-CVE-2015-5254-

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q9hr-3pg4-3jp4

https://github.com/Ma1Dong/ActiveMQ_CVE-2015-5254

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a859563f05fbe7c31916b3178c2697165bd9bbf5a65d1cf62aef27d2%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-6013

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05385680

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-4933

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/08/6

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3524

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2036.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2035.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0489.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174537.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174371.html

http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2015-5254-announcement.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-01-08

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.38191