CVE-2017-12174

highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.060 · 93 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

5.98% (93rd) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

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17 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–7.8

v2.07.8highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400USCWE-400US

affected products (17)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Hitachi Ops Centerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:hitachi:ops_center:-
IBM InfoSphere Information Serverall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:infosphere_information_server:-
Juniper Junos Space <19.4R1all versionscert_bundDE
NetApp OnCommand Unified Managerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:netapp:oncommand_unified_manager:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.1all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.1.1
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Juniper Junos Space< 19.4R1cert_bundDE
Red Hat, Inc. HornetQ/Artemis≤ before 2.4.0enisa_euvdEU
apache artemis< 2.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:artemis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat hornetq< 2.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:hornetq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat jboss enterprise application platform= 6.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat jboss enterprise application platform= 6.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat jboss enterprise application platform= 7.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.activemq:artemis-native< 2.4.0osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.activemq/artemis-native
Maven org.hornetq:hornetq-server< 2.4.0.FinalosvUSpkg:maven/org.hornetq/hornetq-server

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-2753Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2018-03-12csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, Daten offenzulegen, Sicherheitsrestriktionen zu umgehen oder Code zur Ausführung zu bringen.
GHSA-gc96-h5pr-839jUncontrolled Resource Consumption in Artemis and HornetQ2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-03-07modified 2026-06-17

references (41)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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