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CVE-2018-1298

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-1298 describes a Denial of Service vulnerability in Apache Qpid Broker-J version 7.0.0, specifically impacting AMQP protocols 0-8, 0-9, 0-91, and 0-10 when using PLAIN or XOAUTH2 SASL authentication mechanisms. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw to crash the broker instance. With a CVSS score of 5.9 (Medium), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and high impact on availability, but requires high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid_broker-j:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0233 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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:apache-qpid-broker-jFixed in: 7.0.1

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-6w3v-66mj-2qm6medium

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.qpid:apache-qpid-broker-j

Oct 19, 2018
redhatCVE-2018-1298Important

qpid-java: Incorrect implementation of some SASL mechanisms can allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service

Nov 21, 2017

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/d9087e9e57c9b6376754e2b4ea8cd5e9ae6449ed17fc384640c9c9e1%40%3Cusers.qpid.apache.org%3E