Resource Exhaustion Affecting rabbitmq-server package, versions <3.8.2-0ubuntu1.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-RABBITMQSERVER-6035938
  • published26 Oct 2023
  • disclosed25 Oct 2023

Introduced: 25 Oct 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 rabbitmq-server to version 3.8.2-0ubuntu1.5 or higher.

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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 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 Scores

version 3.1