CVE-2011-4905 (GCVE-0-2011-4905)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-01-05 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Apache ActiveMQ before 5.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor exhaustion and broker crash or hang) by sending many openwire failover:tcp:// connection requests.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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