CVE-2023-46120

Summary

CVECVE-2023-46120
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-25 18:17:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-01 16:42:00 UTC
DescriptionThe RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. `maxBodyLebgth` was not used when receiving Message objects. Attackers could send a very large Message causing a memory overflow and triggering an OOM Error. Users of RabbitMQ may suffer from DoS attacks from RabbitMQ Java client which will ultimately exhaust the memory of the consumer. This vulnerability was patched in version 5.18.0.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vmware Rabbitmq Java Client All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release v5.18.0 · rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client · GitHub MISC github.com
Add max inbound message size to ConnectionFactory · rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client@714aae6 · GitHub MISC github.com
No message size limit in RabbitMQ Java client can lead to a remote DoS attack of consumer applications · Advisory · rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client · GitHub MISC github.com
Add ability to specify maximum message size · Issue #1062 · rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 995695 Java (Maven) Security Update for com.rabbitmq:amqp-client (GHSA-mm8h-8587-p46h)
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