CVE-2012-6551: Apache ActiveMQ

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default configuration of Apache ActiveMQ before 5.8.0 enables a sample web application, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (broker resource consumption) via HTTP requests.

Affected products

• Apache ActiveMQ: up to and including 5.7.0; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.1 only; …

Published 2013-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.