rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server · Security
Pivotal RabbitMQ is vulnerable to a denial of service attack
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-hrfh-7j5f-8ccr
- CVE ID
- CVE-2019-11287
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
CWEs
- CWE-134 · Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11287 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078 ↗
- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html ↗
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrfh-7j5f-8ccr ↗