CVE-2023-46118

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    CVE-2023-46118

    Published: 24 Oct 2023Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: Denial of Service by publishing large messages over the HTTP API

    Details: RabbitMQ is a multi-protocol messaging and streaming broker. HTTP API did not enforce an HTTP request body limit, making it vulnerable for denial of service (DoS) attacks with very large messages. An authenticated user with sufficient credentials can publish a very large messages over the HTTP API and cause target node to be terminated by an "out-of-memory killer"-like mechanism. This vulnerability has been patched in versions 3.11.24 and 3.12.7.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00009.html, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/46xxx/CVE-2023-46118.json, https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-w6cq-9cf4-gqpg, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46118, https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5571

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -a01b6a776dc51e8b43f78e0abc146649a3582594

    Affected versions

    v3.12.6
    v3.12.5
    v3.12.4
    v3.12.3
    v3.12.2
    v3.12.2-beta.1
    v3.12.1
    v3.12.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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