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CVE-2017-15701

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15701 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Apache Qpid Broker-J versions 6.1.0 through 6.1.4. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending oversized AMQP 1.0 frames, leading to memory exhaustion and broker termination. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.1.0, <= 6.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid_broker-j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0439 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.qpid:qpid-brokerFixed in: 6.1.5

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-4r7g-7cpj-5jr7high

Apache Qpid Broker-J vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via uncontrolled resource consumption

Oct 19, 2018

References

issues.apache.org / jira/browse/QPID-7947
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/4054e1c90993f337eeea24a312841c0661653e673c0ff8e2cd9520fe%40%3Cdev.qpid.apache.org%3E
qpid.apache.org / cves/CVE-2017-15701.html
MitigationVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/102041
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry