UBUNTU-CVE-2023-46118

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-46118

    Published: 25 Oct 2023Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-46118
    Aliases:
    USN-6501-1

    Summary:

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-46118, https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-w6cq-9cf4-gqpg, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6501-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-46118

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rabbitmq-server

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.5.4-1
    3.5.4-3
    3.5.4-3.1
    3.5.7-1
    3.5.7-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
    3.5.7-1ubuntu0.16.04.2
    3.5.7-1ubuntu0.16.04.4
    3.5.7-1ubuntu0.16.04.4+esm1
    3.5.7-1ubuntu0.16.04.4+esm2

    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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