CVE-2023-46118

Published: 25 October 2023

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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.9

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
rabbitmq-server Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Released (3.8.2-0ubuntu1.5)
	jammy	Released (3.9.13-1ubuntu0.22.04.2)
	lunar	Released (3.10.8-1.1ubuntu0.1)
	mantic	Released (3.12.1-1ubuntu0.1)
	noble	Released (3.12.1-1ubuntu1)
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Released (3.11.24,3.12.7)
	xenial	Needs triage
	Patches: upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/pull/9709 upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/0de73e5f3fef07bef8299d19faa89cc4fc01219f upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/6d8a4ead2cbddfba33e178b3cafa1d550819d589 upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/e6eb78b48072e159c243edb26cd671cf0451e2a1 upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/pull/9710 upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/8c25a89582840f3e2d5f4ba14b29193df4dad639 upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/e68b879823628d71d4f0e7c73f1a6229c82e945e upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/e64f1cfe8e182d2d659a5a9193cf4cfc9c44b018

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.9
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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