# CVE-2026-106121: RabbitMQ: JSONReader in the default JSON-RPC mapper never terminates on truncated input, causing DoS

- Also known as: GHSA-CQGH-8P3P-MX4M
- Severity: CVSS 4.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.36.1
- Published: 2026-10-06 · Updated: 2026-10-06

## Affected

- rabbitmq rabbitmq-java-client: fixed in 5.36.1
- com.rabbitmq amqp-client: fixed in 5.36.1
- com.rabbitmq:amqp-client (Maven): fixed in 5.36.1

## Description

The RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. Prior to 5.37.0, com.rabbitmq.tools.json.JSONReader.read() fails to terminate when input ends inside a quoted string or a line comment because its string and whitespace scanners do not stop at CharacterIterator.DONE. The default DefaultJsonRpcMapper passes JSON-RPC message bodies to this parser for JsonRpcServer and client replies. A truncated string causes the parser to append replacement end markers until heap exhaustion, while a line comment without a terminating newline can keep a thread consuming CPU indefinitely, resulting in denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 5.37.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rabbitmq rabbitmq-java-client, com.rabbitmq amqp-client, com.rabbitmq:amqp-client, upgrade to a fixed version (5.36.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/security/advisories/GHSA-cqgh-8p3p-mx4m
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/pull/2100
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/commit/25fad817291feff3195c32620117d295598f8b41
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/releases/tag/v5.37.0

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