Advisory record · GHSA-wmhw-hpwh-44pg

Apache ActiveMQ Apollo XXE Vulnerability

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.046 · 91st percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 14 May 2022, 01:14 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apache.activemq:apollo-projectMaven>=1.0.0, <1.7.11.7.1
Identifiers
GHSA-wmhw-hpwh-44pg · CVE-2014-3579
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611
Published
14 May 2022
Updated
12 Apr 2024

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Apache ActiveMQ Apollo 1.x before 1.7.1 (package org.apache.activemq:apollo-project) contains an XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability. A remote consumer can exploit it through an XPath-based selector when dequeuing XML messages, and the source does not specify the resulting impact. Upgrade to version 1.7.1 or later; the source lists no workaround.

Written 8 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.046, the 91st percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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