CVE-2023-46118
HTTP API did not enforce an HTTP request body limit, making it vulnerable for denial of service (DoS) attacks with very large messages.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.09%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
RabbitMQ 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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.09% probability · 63th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- vmware/rabbitmq
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-w6cq-9cf4-gqpgVendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00009.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5571
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-w6cq-9cf4-gqpgVendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00009.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5571
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.