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CVE-2019-11287

RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin DoS via heap overflow

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.16.7, 1.17.4, v3.7.21, v3.8.1
1 proof of concept on GitHub

Summary

Pivotal RabbitMQ, versions 3.7.x prior to 3.7.21 and 3.8.x prior to 3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain a web management plugin that is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. The "X-Reason" HTTP Header can be leveraged to insert a malicious Erlang format string that will expand and consume the heap, resulting in the server crashing.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • Pivotal RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform

    From 1.16 · fixed in 1.16.7; From 1.17 · fixed in 1.17.4

  • Pivotal RabbitMQ

    From 3.7 · fixed in v3.7.21; From 3.8 · fixed in v3.8.1

References 7

pivotal.io

lists.fedoraproject.org

access.redhat.com

GitHub · DrunkenShells/Disclosures

lists.debian.org

GitHub · mbadanoiu/CVE-2019-11287