RHSA-2026:8509 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.14.0 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

AMQ Broker is a high-performance messaging implementation based on ActiveMQ Artemis. It uses an asynchronous journal for fast message persistence, and supports multiple languages, protocols, and platforms.

This release of Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.14.0 includes security and bug fixes, and enhancements. For further information, refer to the release notes linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• (CVE-2026-1605) jetty-server: Eclipse Jetty: Denial of Service due to unreleased JDK Inflater from compressed HTTP requests
• (CVE-2026-33870) netty-codec-http: Netty: Request smuggling via incorrect parsing of HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding extension values
• (CVE-2026-33871) netty-codec-http2: Netty: Denial of Service via HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame flood
• (CVE-2026-33871) netty-codec-http: Netty: Denial of Service via HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame flood
• (CVE-2026-24281) zookeeper: Apache ZooKeeper: Impersonation of servers or clients via reverse DNS spoofing
• (CVE-2026-24308) zookeeper: Apache ZooKeeper: Information disclosure via improper handling of configuration values
• (CVE-2026-32642) artemis-server: Apache Artemis and Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Unauthorized address creation due to incorrect authorization during JMS topic subscription.

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Before applying the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Affected Products

• Red Hat JBoss Middleware Text-Only Advisories for MIDDLEWARE 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2444815 - CVE-2026-1605 org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server: Eclipse Jetty: Denial of Service due to unreleased JDK Inflater from compressed HTTP requests
• BZ - 2445449 - CVE-2026-24281 Apache ZooKeeper: Apache ZooKeeper: Impersonation of servers or clients via reverse DNS spoofing
• BZ - 2445451 - CVE-2026-24308 Apache ZooKeeper: Apache ZooKeeper: Information disclosure via improper handling of configuration values
• BZ - 2450642 - CVE-2026-32642 Apache Artemis: Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Apache Artemis and Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Unauthorized address creation due to incorrect authorization during JMS topic subscription.
• BZ - 2452453 - CVE-2026-33870 io.netty/netty-codec-http: Netty: Request smuggling via incorrect parsing of HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding extension values
• BZ - 2452456 - CVE-2026-33871 netty: Netty: Denial of Service via HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame flood
• ENTMQBR-10248 - The broker log shows some security exceptions, but only when starting
• ENTMQBR-10210 - Prometheus metrics exporter endpoint randomly stop responding
• ENTMQBR-10110 - LegacyLDAPSecuritySettingPlugin should correctly interpret $ fetched from LDAP entries
• ENTMQBR-9939 - Unable to disable queue metrics
• ENTMQBR-9907 - Initial distribution broken when sending to FQQN
• ENTMQBR-9810 - Using Java23+ results in UnsupportedOperationException calling Subject.getSubject
• ENTMQBR-9574 - Audit logger always uses "unknown" user instead of real user name for connection created event
• ENTMQBR-9143 - Handle Messages with Missing Routing Information in SF Queue / Cluster Bridge
• ENTMQBR-7300 - WARN [org.apache.activemq.artemis.protocol.amqp.proton.ProtonServerSenderContext] null: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
• ENTMQBR-10160 - JMX:countMessages(filter) is not working properly.
• ENTMQBR-10263 - AMQ Broker web console shows menu items for unauthorized operations
• ENTMQBR-10265 - AMQ Broker console inaccessible with authenticationThrottled=false
• ENTMQBR-10309 - RBAC is not applied for the tabs (browse message and send message) for the queue elements in the Artemis JMX tree
• ENTMQBR-10325 - [Docs] Document how to secure console by integrating with OpenID Connect
• ENTMQBR-10371 - [Docs] RBAC is not applied for the tabs (browse message and send message) for the queue elements in the Artemis JMX tree
• ENTMQBR-10417 - Temporary Queues should not be mirrored
• ENTMQBR-10416 - Temporary Addresses may leak when consumer is not yet closed
• ENTMQBR-10245 - [Docs] Incorrect client-side load balancing information
• ENTMQBR-9912 - Improve section about external client load balancing
• ENTMQBR-9869 - Pls backport ARTEMIS-5427
• ENTMQBR-9640 - [Doc] Document persist-delivery-count-before-delivery
• ENTMQBR-9628 - Clarifying Red Hat's support for ZooKeeper components
• ENTMQBR-8882 - [Docs] The default value of <management-address> is "activemq.management"
• ENTMQBR-8665 - Fix syntax of AMQPMirrorBrokerConnectionElement in product docs

CVEs

• CVE-2026-1605
• CVE-2026-24281
• CVE-2026-24308
• CVE-2026-32642
• CVE-2026-33870
• CVE-2026-33871

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=jboss.amq.broker&version=7.14.0
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_amq_broker/7.14