GHSA-53v4-42fg-g287 · Severity: high · Ecosystem: maven — Apache ActiveMQ Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability
Once an user is authenticated on Jolokia, he can potentially trigger arbitrary code execution. In details, in ActiveMQ configurations, jetty allows org.jolokia.http.AgentServlet to handler request to /api/jolokia org.jolokia.http.HttpRequestHandler#handlePostRequest is able to create JmxRequest through JSONObject. And calls to org.jolokia.http.HttpRequestHandler#executeRequest. Into deeper calling stacks, org.jolokia.handler.ExecHandler#doHandleRequest can be invoked through refection. This could lead to RCE through via various mbeans. One example is unrestricted deserialization in jdk.management.jfr.FlightRecorderMXBeanImpl which exists on Java version above 11. 1 Call newRecording. 2 Call setConfiguration. And a webshell data hides in it. 3 Call startRecording. 4 Call copyTo method. The webshell will be written to a .jsp file. The mitigation is to restrict (by default) the actions authorized on Jolokia, or disable Jolokia. A more restrictive Jolokia configuration has been defined in default ActiveMQ distribution. We encourage users to upgrade to ActiveMQ distributions version including updated Jolokia configuration: 5.16.6, 5.17.4, 5.18.0, 6.0.0.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-41678 is rated High Risk (70.3/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 93.00%, 100th percentile). Core evidence: EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2026-05-25 | 92.81% | 93.00% | +0.19% |
| 2 | 2026-05-22 | 93.14% | 92.81% | -0.33% |
| 3 | 2026-05-07 | — | 93.14% | — |
Full EPSS history (34 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 8.8 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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2.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-53v4-42fg-g287 · Severity: high · Ecosystem: maven — Apache ActiveMQ Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2022-41678 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (activemq), 4 status rows across 4 suites (bookworm, bullseye, sid, trixie): resolved 4. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-41678 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41678 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2022-41678 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (activemq), 11 status rows across 11 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 5, ignored 3, not-affected 3. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-41678 |