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CVE-2026-40466

Improper Input Validation, Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')…

Technology

Apache ActiveMQ

CVSS Score

8.8 / 10.0

Affected Versions

<5.19.6; >=6.0.0 <6.2.5

Upstream Fix

See upstream advisory

Published

April 24, 2026

OSSeva Coverage

Fixed upstream

Description

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 c

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