Resource Exhaustion Affecting rabbitmq-server package, versions <0:3.9.10-3.el9ost


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.09% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-RABBITMQSERVER-6037792
  • published27 Oct 2023
  • disclosed23 Oct 2023

Introduced: 23 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-46118  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 rabbitmq-server to version 0:3.9.10-3.el9ost or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:0217.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rabbitmq-server package and not the rabbitmq-server package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1