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CVE-2026-67226BIT-RABBITMQ-2026-67226GHSA-34C7-R8W9-5WV8

RabbitMQ: Admin-only atom exhaustion: PUT /api/users tags list

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Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.0.22, 4.1.14, 4.2.7
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7, Admin-only atom exhaustion: PUT /api/users tags list. settags/2 maps rabbitdatacoercion:toatom/1 over the user's tags list. The 20 MB management body limit fits ~3-4M short tag strings. An administrator can crash the node in a single request by creating a user (or importing definitions) with ~1M unique tag administrator. This issue is fixed in versions 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • rabbitmq rabbitmq-server

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.0.22; From 4.1.0 · fixed in 4.1.14; From 4.2.0 · fixed in 4.2.7

  • rabbitmqBitnami

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.0.22; From 4.1.0 · fixed in 4.1.14; From 4.2.0 · fixed in 4.2.7

References 3

GitHub · rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server