CVE-2025-29953

CVE-2025-29953: Apache ActiveMQ NMS OpenWire Client: deserialization allowlist bypass

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache ActiveMQ NMS OpenWire Client
Weakness CWE-502 · Unsafe deserialization
Published April 18, 2025
Last update April 23, 2025

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What the vulnerability does

Description

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ NMS OpenWire Client. This issue affects Apache ActiveMQ NMS OpenWire Client before 2.1.1 when performing connections to untrusted servers. Such servers could abuse the unbounded deserialization in the client to provide malicious responses that may eventually cause arbitrary code execution on the client. Version 2.1.0 introduced a allow/denylist feature to restrict deserialization, but this feature could be bypassed. The .NET team has deprecated the built-in .NET binary serialization feature starting with .NET 9 and suggests migrating away from binary serialization. The project is considering to follow suit and drop this part of the NMS API altogether. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.1, which fixes the issue. We also recommend to migrate away from relying on .NET binary serialization as a hardening method for the future.

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April 18, 2025 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated