RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin DoS via heap overflow
CVE-2019-11287

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Pivotal

Status
RabbitMQ For Pivotal Platform
RabbitMQ
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 November 2019

What is CVE-2019-11287?

Pivotal RabbitMQ, versions 3.7.x prior to 3.7.21 and 3.8.x prior to 3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain a web management plugin that is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. The "X-Reason" HTTP Header can be leveraged to insert a malicious Erlang format string that will expand and consume the heap, resulting in the server crashing.

Affected Version(s)

RabbitMQ 3.7

RabbitMQ 3.8

RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform 1.16 < 1.16.7

References

https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

CVSS V3.0

Score:
4.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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