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Fencer Vulns
low 3.7

CVE-2017-15709 json

ActiveMQ's OpenWire protocol exposes certain system details as plain text

published 2018-02-13 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-7qm4-p377-fr2r , EUVD-2022-3050

cvss
3.7
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
22.8%
EPSS 22.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

When using the OpenWire protocol in ActiveMQ versions 5.14.0 to 5.15.2 it was found that certain system details (such as the OS and kernel version) are exposed as plain text.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.activemq:activemq-openwire-generator 5.15.3
  • maven org.apache.activemq:activemq-parent 5.14.6, 5.15.3
  • activemq Debian 13, Debian 12 5.15.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15709

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-2017-15709 updated cvss 3.5

activemq-openwire-generator: Information Exposure in ActiveMQ

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 activemq-openwire-generator activemq-openwire-generator
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 broker
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

22.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 3.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 3.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.activemq:activemq-openwire-generator
>=5.14.0, <5.15.3
5.15.3
maven org.apache.activemq:activemq-parent
>=5.15.0, <5.15.3
>=5.14.0, <5.14.6
5.15.3
5.14.6

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache ActiveMQ

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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