Denial of Service by publishing large messages over the HTTP API
CVE-2023-46118

4.9MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

RabbitMQ

Status
RabbitMQ-server
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 October 2023

What is CVE-2023-46118?

RabbitMQ is a multi-protocol messaging and streaming broker. HTTP API did not enforce an HTTP request body limit, making it vulnerable for denial of service (DoS) attacks with very large messages. An authenticated user with sufficient credentials can publish a very large messages over the HTTP API and cause target node to be terminated by an "out-of-memory killer"-like mechanism. This vulnerability has been patched in versions 3.11.24 and 3.12.7.

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Affected Version(s)

rabbitmq-server < 3.12.7 < 3.12.7

rabbitmq-server < 3.11.24 < 3.11.24

References

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advi...
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https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5571
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg0...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.9
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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