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    GHSA-hrfh-7j5f-8ccr

    Published: 24 May 2022Last Modified: 10 Dec 2025

    Summary: Pivotal RabbitMQ is vulnerable to a denial of service attack

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11287, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078, https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin, https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4, https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: RabbitMQ

    Purl: pkg:hex/RabbitMQ

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 3.7.0
    Fixed -3.7.21

    Affected versions

    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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