CVE-2019-11287
Pivotal 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…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Pivotal 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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 4.40% probability · 91th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400, CWE-134
- Affected
- broadcom/rabbitmq server · pivotal software/rabbitmq · fedoraproject/fedora · redhat/openstack · debian/debian linux
- Source
- security@pivotal.io
EPSS 4.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20PluginExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20PluginExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.