CVE-2026-75880 PUBLISHED

Apache Artemis, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Message selector wildcard handling could lead to denial of service

Assigner: apache
Reserved: 18.08.2026 Published: 10.09.2026 Updated: 10.09.2026

An authenticated client could attach a consumer with a selector containing crafted wildcard usage that results in excessive evaluation during message delivery attempts, occupying a shared broker thread and leading to denial of service.

This issue affects Apache Artemis: from 2.50.0 through 2.56.0; Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: from 1.0.0 through 2.44.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.57.0, which fixes this issue.

Product Status

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Artemis
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.50.0 to 2.56.0 (incl.)
Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache ActiveMQ Artemis
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.0.0 to 2.44.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Mike Read finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient regular expression complexity CWE