SCA: security update for org.apache.activemq:artemis-native, org.hornetq:hornetq-server (GHSA-gc96-h5pr-839j)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415059

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2017-12174)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gc96-h5pr-839j

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415059

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12174

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12174

cwe: CWE-400