CVE-2026-67406

RabbitMQ: Federation and Shovel Gen-Servers Lack format_status Callback — Plaintext Credentials Exposed in Crash Dumps and sys:get_status

State
Published
Severity
4.6 Medium
Published
Sep 25, 2026
Updated
Sep 25, 2026
Reserved
Jul 29, 2026

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Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.3.3, 4.2.9, 4.1.14, and 4.0.23, Shovel does not format state logged by the crash reporter and can leave unencrypted credentials in a crash dump file. the shovel worker genserver processes does not implement the formatstatus/2 callback. When these processes crash (e.g., due to network partitions, connection failures), the OTP SASL error handler writes the full process state , including plaintext AMQP passwords and URIs , to the error log. This is particularly severe for the shovel worker, which stores deobfuscated plaintext URIs (including amqp://user:password@host format) in its genserver state for the entire process Automatic Credential Exposure: Shovel worker crashes (common during network partitions) automatically write plaintext upstream/downstream passwords to error logs No Special Configuration Needed: Unlike DEBUG logging, SASL error reports are always active Broad. This issue is fixed in versions 4.3.3, 4.2.9, 4.1.14, and 4.0.23.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.04.6 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rabbitmq-serverrabbitmq
  • >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.3Affected
  • >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.9Affected
  • >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.14Affected
  • >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.23Affected

References

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