CVE-2026-75880 (GCVE-0-2026-75880)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-10 04:36 – Updated: 2026-09-18 14:37
VLAI
Title
Apache Artemis, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Message selector wildcard handling could lead to denial of service
Summary
An authenticated client could attach a consumer with a selector containing crafted wildcard usage that results in excessive evaluation during message delivery attempts, occupying a shared broker thread and leading to denial of service. This issue affects Apache Artemis: from 2.50.0 through 2.56.0; Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: from 1.0.0 through 2.44.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.57.0, which fixes this issue.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-10 17:31 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient regular expression complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Artemis Affected: 2.50.0 , ≤ 2.56.0 (semver)
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Apache Software Foundation Apache ActiveMQ Artemis Affected: 1.0.0 , ≤ 2.44.0 (semver)
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Credits
Mike Read
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