CVE-2026-67236
RabbitMQ: Plaintext username:password stored in an insecure cookie after successful POST /login
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.2 High
- Published
- Sep 25, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 28, 2026
- Reserved
- Jul 28, 2026
Description
RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.2.0 until 4.2.8 and 4.3.2, a successful POST /login caused is_authorized/2 to set an auth cookie containing base64-encoded username:password credentials without HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite, or expiration protections. Because base64 is encoding rather than encryption, an attacker with same-origin cross-site scripting, an HTTP-readable network position, or local access to the browser cookie store could recover the actual login credentials; older browsers that treated an absent SameSite attribute as None also sent the cookie cross-site. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.8 and 4.3.2.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.2 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
rabbitmq-serverrabbitmq |
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References
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-88vh-gx85-p36m
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/df9e7f4c0afd311a672705f020d301efad355745
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/edf1fbc7217aaf736955d2e13c9534901a2e0778
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.8
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.2
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