CVE-2018-8030 — A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in Apache Qpid Broker-J versions 7

A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in Apache Qpid Broker-J versions 7.0.0-7.0.4 when AMQP protocols 0-8, 0-9 or 0-91 are used to publish messages with size greater than allowed maximum message size limit (100MB by default). The broker crashes due to the defect. AMQP prot

01What is this vulnerability?

A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in Apache Qpid Broker-J versions 7.0.0-7.0.4 when AMQP protocols 0-8, 0-9 or 0-91 are used to publish messages with size greater than allowed maximum message size limit (100MB by default). The broker crashes due to the defect. AMQP protocols 0-10 and 1.0 are not affected.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Qpid Broker	J — 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-06-19T13:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T19:41:52.432Z

09References

• www.securitytracker.com — http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041138
• lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1089a4f351a1bdca0618199e53bceeec59a10bf4e30…