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critical 9.8

CVE-2014-3600 json

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache ActiveMQ

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-4vhf-2hv7-8mrx , EUVD-2022-2450

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.2%
EPSS 8.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.10.1 allows remote consumers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving an XPath based selector when dequeuing XML messages.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.activemq:activemq-client 5.10.1
  • maven org.apache.activemq:activemq-broker 5.10.1
  • activemq Debian 13, Debian 12 5.6.0+dfsg1-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3600

  • activemq Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u1build0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3600

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-3600 updated cvss 5.0

ActiveMQ: XXE via XPath expression evaluation

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 activemq Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4 activemq activemq Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 activemq
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Fuse ESB Enterprise 7.1.0 Red Hat Fuse Management Console 7.1.0 Red Hat Fuse MQ Enterprise 7.1.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0138
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.1 Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0137

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

8.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.activemq:activemq-client
>=5.0.0, <5.10.1
5.10.1
maven org.apache.activemq:activemq-broker
>=5.0.0, <5.10.1
5.10.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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