RabbitMQ Server access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in RabbitMQ Server and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-51988. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in RabbitMQ Server (the affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

RabbitMQ is a feature rich, multi-protocol messaging and streaming broker. In affected versions queue deletion via the HTTP API was not verifying the `configure` permission of the user. Users who had all of the following: 1. Valid credentials, 2. Some permissions for the target virtual host & 3. HTTP API access. could delete queues it had no (deletion) permissions for. This issue has been addressed in version 3.12.11 of the open source rabbitMQ release and in versions 1.5.2, 3.13.0, and 4.0.0 of the tanzu release. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable management plugin and use, for example, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-51988 since 11/04/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 234569 (RabbitMQ 3.12.x < 3.12.11 Queue Deletion Authorization Bypass), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (234569). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.8

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 234569
Nessus Name: RabbitMQ 3.12.x < 3.12.11 Queue Deletion Authorization Bypass

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

11/04/2024 🔍
11/06/2024 +2 days 🔍
11/06/2024 +0 days 🔍
04/18/2025 +163 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-51988 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-51988
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-283363

Entryinfo

Created: 11/06/2024 21:23
Updated: 04/18/2025 05:30
Changes: 11/06/2024 21:23 (61), 11/07/2024 15:00 (1), 04/18/2025 05:30 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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Discussion

 Anonymous User (+0)
2 years ago
I don't find this cpe into NVD NIST cpe dictionary. You used rabbitmq:rabbitmq, can you append this?
 VulDB Community Team2 years ago
Thank you, we have just aligned the CPE.
 Anonymous User (+0)
2 years ago
I don't retrieve the new cpe, could you push the data via the API istance? Thanks.
 VulDB Community Team2 years ago
We have pushed the entry again to the API.

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