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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:03

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Denial of Service by publishing large messages over the HTTP API

Details

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.

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  "id": "BIT-rabbitmq-2023-46118",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:03:02.882Z",
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    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00009.html"
    },
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      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5571"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Denial of Service by publishing large messages over the HTTP API"
}

CVE-2023-46118 (GCVE-0-2023-46118)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-24 23:27 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:14

Title

Denial of Service by publishing large messages over the HTTP API

Summary

Severity

4.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7797 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/secur…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5571
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
rabbitmq	rabbitmq-server	Affected: < 3.12.7 Affected: < 3.11.24

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