RabbitMQ 3.11.x < 3.11.24 / 3.12.x < 3.12.7 Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 234566

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Synopsis

An application installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The version of RabbitMQ installed on the remote host is 3.11.x prior to 3.11.24, or 3.12.x prior to 3.12.7. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability:

- 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. (CVE-2023-46118)

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

Solution

Upgrade to RabbitMQ version 3.11.24 or 3.12.7 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 234566

File Name: rabbitmq_3_12_7.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 4/17/2025

Updated: 4/17/2025

Configuration: Enable thorough checks (optional)

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46118

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:pivotal_software:rabbitmq

Required KB Items: installed_sw/RabbitMQ

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46118

Detections

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