High [CVE-2026-50734] Denial of Service via crafted WireFormatInfo frame
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-50734 affecting AMQ Clients 2026.Q3, Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.13.6, Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.14.1.
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Summary
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Client, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ActiveMQ All. An unauthenticated network attacker can cause a broker DoS by sending a crafted WireFormatInfo frame with a malicious large size value.
The value is not validate and causes the broker to attempt allocation during pre-auth negotiation which can trigger OOM and crash the broker. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 6.2.7 or 5.19.8, which fixes the issue.
Consequently, this can lead to an Out Of Memory (OOM) error, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) and crashing the broker. A flaw was found in Apache ActiveMQ Classic's OpenWire protocol handling.
Red Hat severity: Important — CVSS 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-770.
Affected Red Hat products: AMQ Clients 2026.Q3; Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.13.6; Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.14.1; Red Hat AMQ Broker 7; Red Hat AMQ Clients; Red Hat Fuse 7; Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.
Red Hat lists Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4; Red Hat Data Grid 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8; Red Hat Satellite 6 as not affected. Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Fuse 7.
Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2026:69459, RHSA-2026:66545, RHSA-2026:66488.
- < 5.19.8
- < 6.0.0
- < 6.2.7
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 21 days ago·verify at source
- 6.2.7
- 5.19.8
- artemis-core-client
- activemq-client
- RHSA-2026:69459
- RHSA-2026:66545
- RHSA-2026:66488
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 21 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 21 days ago·verify at source
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