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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : rabbitmq-server (SUSE-SU-2023:4939-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 187148

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4939-1 advisory.

 - 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. (CVE-2023-46118)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected erlang-rabbitmq-client, rabbitmq-server and / or rabbitmq-server-plugins packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1216582

http://www.nessus.org/u?75d30d04

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-46118

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 187148

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4939-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2023

Updated: 12/21/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46118

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rabbitmq-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:erlang-rabbitmq-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rabbitmq-server-plugins, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46118

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4939-1