RabbitMQ up to 3.13.14/4.0.20/4.1.10/4.2.5 Topic Authorization lookup improper authorization

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in RabbitMQ up to 3.13.14/4.0.20/4.1.10/4.2.5. Affected by this issue is the function lookup of the component Topic Authorization. Performing a manipulation results in improper authorization. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-57217. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in RabbitMQ up to 3.13.14/4.0.20/4.1.10/4.2.5. This affects the function lookup of the component Topic Authorization. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to 3.13.15, 4.0.21, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6, RabbitMQ topic authorization can allow restricted topic writes and binds during metadata-store failures because topic-permission lookup errors from Khepri can collapse to undefined, which the internal backend treats as allow. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.21, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-57217 since 06/24/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1548.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.13.15, 4.0.21, 4.1.11 or 4.2.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• RabbitMQ

Version

• 3.13.0
• 3.13.1
• 3.13.2
• 3.13.3
• 3.13.4
• 3.13.5
• 3.13.6
• 3.13.7
• 3.13.8
• 3.13.9
• 3.13.10
• 3.13.11
• 3.13.12
• 3.13.13
• 3.13.14
• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.0.5
• 4.0.6
• 4.0.7
• 4.0.8
• 4.0.9
• 4.0.10
• 4.0.11
• 4.0.12
• 4.0.13
• 4.0.14
• 4.0.15
• 4.0.16
• 4.0.17
• 4.0.18
• 4.0.19
• 4.0.20
• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.1.3
• 4.1.4
• 4.1.5
• 4.1.6
• 4.1.7
• 4.1.8
• 4.1.9
• 4.1.10
• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4
• 4.2.5

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