CVE-2023-46604

What the flaw is

Apache ActiveMQ contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that may allow a remote attacker with network access to a broker to run shell commands by manipulating serialized class types in the OpenWire protocol to cause the broker to instantiate any class on the classpath.

Description as published by CISA. We have not independently reproduced it.

What CISA requires

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

This deadline is binding on US federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01. It is not a legal deadline for anyone else, but it is a useful urgency signal — CISA sets it by how actively the flaw is being used, not by CVSS.

Public exploit code

88 public repositories referencing this CVE have been catalogued on GitHub. That volume usually means a reliable, widely-reproduced exploit. Treat this as a strong signal to prioritise patching, not as a verified working exploit — many such repositories are scanners, write-ups or forks rather than functional code.

• 20142995/sectool
• ARPSyndicate/cve-scores
• Abdibimantara/Outbound-Connection-OpenWire-Case-Cyberdefender
• Anekant-Singhai/Exploits
• Arlenhiack/ActiveMQ-RCE-Exploit
• Awrrays/FrameVul
• CCIEVoice2009/CVE-2023-46604
• Catbamboo/Catbamboo.github.io

Showing 8 of 88. Full list in the trickest/cve dataset.

Vendor advisories

• activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2023-46604-announcement.txt
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46604

Primary sources

• NVD entry — CVSS score, CPE list and references
• CISA KEV catalog — the source for this page
• CVE Record at cve.org