Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2026-10-01 09:33
Modified
2026-10-01 09:55
Summary
RabbitMQ: Atom-table exhaustion via reply-to queue name decoding
Details

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 4.2.7 and 4.3.1, rabbit_pid_codec:decompose_from_binary/1 parses a caller-supplied ETF-encoded binary and calls binary_to_atom(Node, utf8) on the node-name field. It is reached from rabbit_volatile_queue:pid_from_name/2, which is invoked for any queue name / routing key beginning amq.rabbitmq.reply-to.. The CandidateNodes membership check happens after the atom is created, and the surrounding try/catch cannot reclaim atoms (they are never GC'd). binary_to_existing_atom is not used. Any authenticated AMQP client can crash the entire Erlang VM (all vhosts, all connections) with ~1M cheap requests. Preconditions include Authenticated AMQP 0-9-1 connection to any vhost No per-connection rate limit low enough to make ~1M operations infeasible. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.7 and 4.3.1.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "rabbitmq",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/rabbitmq"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "4.2.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.2.7"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "4.3.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.3.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-67238"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:vmware:rabbitmq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 4.2.7 and 4.3.1, rabbit_pid_codec:decompose_from_binary/1 parses a caller-supplied ETF-encoded binary and calls binary_to_atom(Node, utf8) on the node-name field. It is reached from rabbit_volatile_queue:pid_from_name/2, which is invoked for any queue name / routing key beginning amq.rabbitmq.reply-to.. The CandidateNodes membership check happens after the atom is created, and the surrounding try/catch cannot reclaim atoms (they are never GC\u0027d). binary_to_existing_atom is not used. Any authenticated AMQP client can crash the entire Erlang VM (all vhosts, all connections) with ~1M cheap requests. Preconditions include Authenticated AMQP 0-9-1 connection to any vhost No per-connection rate limit low enough to make ~1M operations infeasible. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.7 and 4.3.1.",
  "id": "BIT-rabbitmq-2026-67238",
  "modified": "2026-10-01T09:55:18.588Z",
  "published": "2026-10-01T09:33:34.550Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.7"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-x96j-244m-mrr2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-67238"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "RabbitMQ: Atom-table exhaustion via reply-to queue name decoding"
}



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