CVE-2026-67235

RabbitMQ: AMQP 0-9-1 body assembly never validates accumulated size

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Sep 23, 2026
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Reserved
Jul 28, 2026

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Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 4.3.0, 4.2.6, 4.1.11, 4.0.20, and 3.13.15, The content-header BodySize (a uint64) was stored without validation against max_message_size. The size check ran only when assembly completed. By declaring body_size = 2^63-1 and then streaming fragments, a client ensured that check_msg_size never fired, so the accumulated body size went unbounded. A reader process accumulates memory until the memory alarm fires, degrading all publishers cluster-wide, or until the node runs out of memory. The memory alarm provides only partial mitigation, since it is reactive rather than preventive. AMQP 0-9-1 is the most widely used protocol, and any publisher can trigger this condition. Preconditions include Any authenticated AMQP 0-9-1 client with publish permission can exploit this.. This issue is fixed in versions 4.3.0, 4.2.6, 4.1.11, 4.0.20, and 3.13.15.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rabbitmq-serverrabbitmq
  • >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.6Affected
  • >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.11Affected
  • >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.20Affected
  • >= 3.13.0, < 3.13.15Affected

References

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