High, CVSS 7.5MavenPublished
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Artemis and HornetQ
CVE-2017-12174 · GHSA-gc96-h5pr-839j
- Affected
- Maven org.hornetq:hornetq-server <= 2.4.0.Beta3
- Fixed in
- 2.4.0.Final· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- 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.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 2.4.0.Final or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.