CVE-2019-11287

RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin DoS via heap overflow

State: Published
Severity: 4.5 Medium
Published: Nov 22, 2019
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Apr 18, 2019

Description

Pivotal RabbitMQ, versions 3.7.x prior to 3.7.21 and 3.8.x prior to 3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain a web management plugin that is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. The "X-Reason" HTTP Header can be leveraged to insert a malicious Erlang format string that will expand and consume the heap, resulting in the server crashing.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	4.5 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	pivotal

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Denial of Service

Affected Products

Product	Versions
RabbitMQ for Pivotal PlatformPivotal	1.16 to before 1.16.7Affected 1.17 to before 1.17.4Affected
RabbitMQPivotal	3.7 to before v3.7.21Affected 3.8 to before v3.8.1Affected

References

https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287
FEDORA-2019-6497f51791vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2019-74d2feb5bevendor-advisory
RHSA-2020:0078vendor-advisory
https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin
[debian-lts-announce] 20210719 [SECURITY] [DLA 2710-1] rabbitmq-server security updatemailing-list

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