RabbitMQ up to 3.11.23/3.12.6 HTTP API denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in RabbitMQ up to 3.11.23/3.12.6. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component HTTP API. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-46118. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in RabbitMQ up to 3.11.23/3.12.6 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component HTTP API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was released 10/25/2023 as GHSA-w6cq-9cf4-gqpg. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-46118 since 10/16/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 212913 (CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: rabbitmq-server (CVE-2023-46118)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 3.11.24 or 3.12.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (212913). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• RabbitMQ

Version

• 3.11.0
• 3.11.1
• 3.11.2
• 3.11.3
• 3.11.4
• 3.11.5
• 3.11.6
• 3.11.7
• 3.11.8
• 3.11.9
• 3.11.10
• 3.11.11
• 3.11.12
• 3.11.13
• 3.11.14
• 3.11.15
• 3.11.16
• 3.11.17
• 3.11.18
• 3.11.19
• 3.11.20
• 3.11.21
• 3.11.22
• 3.11.23
• 3.12.0
• 3.12.1
• 3.12.2
• 3.12.3
• 3.12.4
• 3.12.5
• 3.12.6

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