CVE-2023-46604 (GCVE-0-2023-46604)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-27 14:59
Modified
2025-11-03 21:50
Severity ?
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Summary
The Java OpenWire protocol marshaller is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker with network access to either a Java-based OpenWire broker or client to run arbitrary shell commands by manipulating serialized class types in the OpenWire protocol to cause either the client or the broker (respectively) to instantiate any class on the classpath. Users are recommended to upgrade both brokers and clients to version 5.15.16, 5.16.7, 5.17.6, or 5.18.3 which fixes this issue.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache ActiveMQ Version: 5.18.0   ≤
Version: 5.17.0   ≤
Version: 5.16.0   ≤
Version: 0   ≤
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   Apache Software Foundation Apache ActiveMQ Legacy OpenWire Module Version: 5.18.0   ≤
Version: 5.17.0   ≤
Version: 5.16.0   ≤
Version: 5.8.0   ≤
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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
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Date added: 2023-11-02

Due date: 2023-11-23

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Used in ransomware: Known

Notes: https://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2023-46604-announcement.txt; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46604

ENISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Data from the ENISA CNW Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
Vendor/Product: Apache | Product: ActiveMQ

CVE: CVE-2023-46604

EUVD: EUVD-2023-2719

Date reported: 23/01/25

Exploitation type: ransomware

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