GHSA-hrfh-7j5f-8ccrHighCVSS 7.5

Pivotal RabbitMQ is vulnerable to a denial of service attack

Published
May 24, 2022
Last Modified
April 2, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products4

  • erlang/RabbitMQ:>= 3.7.0, < 3.7.21
  • erlang/RabbitMQ:>= 3.8.0, < 3.8.1
  • erlang/RabbitMQ:< 1.16.7
  • erlang/RabbitMQ:>= 1.17.0, < 1.17.4

🔗 References (8)