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

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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

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rabbitmq-serverrabbitmq
  • >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.8Affected
  • >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.2Affected

References

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