Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting apache.nms.activemq package, versions [,2.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-APACHENMSACTIVEMQ-9788137
  • published21 Apr 2025
  • disclosed18 Apr 2025
  • creditg7shot

Introduced: 18 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2025-29953  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ to version 2.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ is an Openwire implementation of the Apache NMS API

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data due to insufficiently strict application of an allowed deserialization type policy. An attacker can execute arbitrary code on the client by providing malicious responses from untrusted servers.

Note: The project maintainers caution that "The .NET team has deprecated the built-in .NET binary serialization feature starting with .NET 9 and suggests migrating away from binary serialization."

Details

Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.

Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1