
CVE catalog
CVE-2026-40466
Improper Input Validation, Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Broker, Apache ActiveMQ All, Apache ActiveMQ. An authenticated attacker may byp
- Severity
- High · CVSS 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 4.78% · Oct 25, 2026
Improper Input Validation, Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Broker, Apache ActiveMQ All, Apache ActiveMQ. An authenticated attacker may bypass the fix in CVE-2026-34197 by adding a connector using an HTTP Discovery transport via BrokerView.addNetworkConnector or BrokerView.addConnector through Jolokia if the activemq-http module is on the classpath. A malicious HTTP endpoint can return a VM transport through the HTTP URI which will bypass the validation added in CVE-2026-34197. The attacker can then use the VM transport's brokerConfig parameter to load a remote Spring XML application context using ResourceXmlApplicationContext. Because Spring's ResourceXmlApplicationContext instantiates all singleton beans before the BrokerService validates the configuration, arbitrary code execution occurs on the broker's JVM through bean factory methods such as Runtime.exec(). This issue affects Apache ActiveMQ Broker: before 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 before 6.2.5; Apache ActiveMQ All: before 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 before 6.2.5; Apache ActiveMQ: before 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 before 6.2.5. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 5.19.6 or 6.2.5, which fixes the issue.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | activemq | sid | 5.17.6+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| Debian | activemq | trixie | 5.17.6+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| Debian | activemq | bookworm | 5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | activemq | bookworm-security | 5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| Cpe | activemq | Not reported | Not reported | vulnerable |
| Cpe | activemq | Not reported | 5.19.6 | fixed |
| Cpe | activemq | Not reported | 6.2.5 | fixed |
| Cpe | activemq_broker | Not reported | 5.19.6 | fixed |
| Cpe | activemq_broker | Not reported | 6.2.5 | fixed |
| Cpe | activemq | Not reported | 6.2.5 | fixed |
| Cpe | activemq_broker | Not reported | 6.2.5 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | activemq | source | sid | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1136024] |
| Debian | activemq | source | trixie | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1136024] |
| Debian | activemq | source | bookworm | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1136024] |
| Cpe | activemq | cpe | Not reported | 5.19.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Cpe | activemq | cpe | Not reported | 6.2.5 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Cpe | activemq_broker | cpe | Not reported | 5.19.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Cpe | activemq_broker | cpe | Not reported | 6.2.5 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Cpe | activemq | cpe | Not reported | 6.2.5 | Not reported | NVD-CVE-2026-40466 | Not reported |
| Cpe | activemq_broker | cpe | Not reported | 6.2.5 | Not reported | NVD-CVE-2026-40466 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [activemq]Affected
Details (4)
5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1· all · bookwormAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · bookworm; nvd · activemq · debian · 12
5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1· all · bookwormAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · bookworm; nvd · activemq · debian · 12
5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1· all · bookworm-securityAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · bookworm; nvd · activemq · debian · 12
5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1· all · bookworm-securityAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · bookworm; nvd · activemq · debian · 12
- [libactivemq-java]Affected
Source package: [activemq]
Details (4)
5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1· all · bookwormAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · bookworm; nvd · activemq · debian · 12
5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1· all · bookwormAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · bookworm; nvd · activemq · debian · 12
5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1· all · bookworm-securityAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · bookworm; nvd · activemq · debian · 12
5.17.2+dfsg-2+deb12u1· all · bookworm-securityAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · bookworm; nvd · activemq · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [activemq]Affected
Details (2)
5.17.6+dfsg-2· all · trixieAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · 13
5.17.6+dfsg-2· all · trixieAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · 13
- [libactivemq-java]Affected
Source package: [activemq]
Details (2)
5.17.6+dfsg-2· all · trixieAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · 13
5.17.6+dfsg-2· all · trixieAffected
nvd · activemq · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40466]
- [https://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2026-34197-announcement.txt]
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461410]
- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40466]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40466]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-40466]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-40466.json]
- [https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2026/wid-sec-w-2026-1258.json]
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