CVE-2021-22116

Summary

CVECVE-2021-22116
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-08 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-25 16:33:00 UTC
DescriptionRabbitMQ all versions prior to 3.8.16 are prone to a denial of service vulnerability due to improper input validation in AMQP 1.0 client connection endpoint. A malicious user can exploit the vulnerability by sending malicious AMQP messages to the target RabbitMQ instance having the AMQP 1.0 plugin enabled.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Vmware Rabbitmq All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2710-1] rabbitmq-server security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE-2021-22116: Denial-of-Service Vulnerability due to improper input validation in RabbitMQ server | Security | VMware Tanzu MISC tanzu.vmware.com
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)
  • 182363 Debian Security Update for rabbitmq-server (CVE-2021-22116)
  • 198422 Ubuntu Security Notification for RabbitMQ vulnerabilities (USN-5004-1)
  • 296065 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 39.107.1 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
  • 375573 RabbitMQ Server Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • 375574 RabbitMQ Server Denial Of Service Vulnerability
  • 690096 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for rabbitmq (7003b62d-7252-46ff-a9df-1b1900f1e65b)
  • 751191 OpenSUSE Security Update for rabbitmq-server (openSUSE-SU-2021:1334-1)
  • 751206 OpenSUSE Security Update for rabbitmq-server (openSUSE-SU-2021:3325-1)
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