CVE-2019-11287

Summary

CVECVE-2019-11287
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-23 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:02:00 UTC
DescriptionPivotal 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-134

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Application Pivotal Software Rabbitmq All All All All
Application Pivotal Software Rabbitmq All All All All
Application Pivotal Software Rabbitmq All All All All
Application Pivotal Software Rabbitmq All All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 15 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 15.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 15.0 All All All
Application Vmware Rabbitmq All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2710-1] rabbitmq-server security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Disclosures/CVE-2019-11287-DoS via Heap Overflow-RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin at master · DrunkenShells/Disclosures · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: rabbitmq-server-3.7.22-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: rabbitmq-server-3.7.22-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: rabbitmq-server-3.7.22-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: rabbitmq-server-3.7.22-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE-2019-11287: RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin DoS via heap overflow | Security | VMware Tanzu CONFIRM pivotal.io Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178716 Debian Security Update for rabbitmq-server (DLA 2710-1)
  • 198422 Ubuntu Security Notification for RabbitMQ vulnerabilities (USN-5004-1)
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