CVE-2023-46118

Publication date 25 October 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
rabbitmq-server	24.10 oracular	Fixed 3.12.1-1ubuntu1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 3.12.1-1ubuntu1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 3.12.1-1ubuntu0.1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 3.10.8-1.1ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3.9.13-1ubuntu0.22.04.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.8.2-0ubuntu1.5
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
rabbitmq-server	Upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/pull/9709 Upstream: 0de73e5 Upstream: 6d8a4ea Upstream: e6eb78b Upstream: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/pull/9710 Upstream: 8c25a89 Upstream: e68b879 Upstream: e64f1cf

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6501-1
RabbitMQ vulnerability
21 November 2023