CVE-2017-12174: apache artemis Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2017-12174 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in apache artemis. EPSS estimates a 5.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Severe, CVSS 7.5 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 6% (FIRST, 04-11-2026)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 7Timeline
- 07-03-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · MavenEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
5.98%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
93%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 5.98% on 05-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Redhat2 products
- hornetq< 2.4.0
- jboss_enterprise_application_platform6.4.0 | 7.1.0 | 6.0.0
Apache1 product
- artemis< 2.4.0
Org.apache.activemq1 product
- artemis-native< 2.4.0
Org.hornetq1 product
- hornetq-server< 2.4.0.Final
Red hat, inc.1 product
- hornetq/artemis< 2.4.0
5 vendors · 6 products
References
15 links- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174X Refsource CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor AdvisoryWEB
