CVE-2015-6524: Apache ActiveMQ

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The LDAPLoginModule implementation in the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) in Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.10.1 allows wildcard operators in usernames, which allows remote attackers to obtain credentials via a brute force attack. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2014-3612 per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types.

Affected products

• Apache ActiveMQ: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 5.2.0 only; version 5.3.0 only; version 5.3.1 only; version 5.3.2 only; …
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only

Published 2015-08-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.