CVE-2023-46118CWE-400

Denial of Service by publishing large messages over the HTTP API

Medium · published October 24, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01086 · 65.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2023-10-24T23:27Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 OCT 23:27Z
    Denial of Service by publishing large messages over the HTTP API
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