CVE-2026-75880

Apache Artemis, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Message selector wildcard handling could lead to denial of service

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Updated
Sep 18, 2026
Reserved
Aug 18, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient regular expression complexity

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache ArtemisApache Software Foundation
  • 2.50.0 through 2.56.0Affected
Apache ActiveMQ ArtemisApache Software Foundation
  • 1.0.0 through 2.44.0Affected

References

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