CVE-2026-67415

RabbitMQ: Shovel Management Atom Exhaustion Allows Persistent Broker-Wide Denial of Service

State
Published
Severity
5.9 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 4.2.0 until 4.2.9 and 4.3.3, the Shovel parameter parser converted attacker-controlled runtime parameter values into non-garbage-collected Erlang atoms before bounding them or checking a fixed allowlist. Exploitation requires network access to the Management HTTP API, valid credentials with both the management and policymaker tags, permission to set Shovel runtime parameters on a vhost, and the rabbitmq_shovel and rabbitmq_shovel_management plugins to be enabled. The attacker can exhaust the node-wide atom table and deny service, and malicious parameters are stored durably and reparsed when workers start, so atom pressure can recur after restart without a live attacker connection. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.9 and 4.3.3.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rabbitmq-serverrabbitmq
  • >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.3Affected
  • >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.9Affected

References

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