CVE-2023-46118

Summary

CVECVE-2023-46118
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-25 18:17:00 UTC
Updated2023-12-02 01:15:00 UTC
DescriptionRabbitMQ 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vmware Rabbitmq All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Denial of Service by publishing large messages over the HTTP API · Advisory · rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server · GitHub MISC github.com
www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5571 www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199939 Ubuntu Security Notification for RabbitMQ Vulnerability (USN-6501-1)
  • 242869 Red Hat Update for OpenStack Platform 17.1 (RHSA-2024:0217)
  • 6000369 Debian Security Update for rabbitmq-server (DSA 5571-1)
  • 6000382 Debian Security Update for rabbitmq-server (DLA 3687-1)
  • 755511 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for rabbitmq-server (SUSE-SU-2023:4939-1)
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