CVE-2015-5254

Publication date 8 January 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
activemq	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u2build0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2015-5254-announcement.txt
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5254