# CVE-2026-77409: RabbitMQ amqp091-go: Denial of Service via Synchronous Event Channel Blocking

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.13.0
- Published: 2026-09-16 · Updated: 2026-09-18

## Affected

- rabbitmq amqp091-go: fixed in 1.13.0

## Description

RabbitMQ amqp091-go is a Go AMQP 0.9.1 client. Prior to 1.13.0, Channel.dispatch in channel.go, confirms.confirm in confirms.go, and Connection.dispatch0 in connection.go synchronously send publisher confirmations, flow-control events, consumer cancellations, returned messages, including NotifyConfirm events and connection block notifications, to application-provided channels. If a listener channel is unbuffered, full, or not drained promptly, the sole reader goroutine blocks and stops processing frames, acknowledgments, deliveries, and heartbeats. Broker-driven event bursts can therefore cause connection stalls, missed heartbeats, deadlocks, and disconnection. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rabbitmq amqp091-go, upgrade to a fixed version (1.13.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go/security/advisories/GHSA-wxx3-cj7g-w73j
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go/pull/349
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go/commit/5b0ccbb8d7bc3dfa18129d9b0f9256d656809494
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go/releases/tag/v1.13.0

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