Vulnerabilities / CVE-2015-5254

critical

CVE-2015-5254

ObjectMessage: unsafe deserialization

Published Modified CWE 20
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat6.0AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.activemq:activemq-client5.11.3, 5.12.2
debian 11activemq5.13.2+dfsg-1
debian 12activemq5.13.2+dfsg-1
debian 13activemq5.13.2+dfsg-1
debian 7activemq5.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u2
debian 8activemq5.6.0+dfsg1-4+deb8u2
echoactivemq5.13.2+dfsg-1
root.io debian 11rootio-activemq5.13.2+dfsg-1
root.io debian 12rootio-activemq5.13.2+dfsg-1
root.io debian 13rootio-activemq5.13.2+dfsg-1
ubuntu 14.04activemq5.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u2build0.14.04.1

References

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