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CVE-2019-11287
RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin DoS via heap overflow
Medium4.5EPSS 4.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- pivotal
Description
Pivotal RabbitMQ, versions 3.7.x prior to 3.7.21 and 3.8.x prior to 3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain a web management plugin that is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. The "X-Reason" HTTP Header can be leveraged to insert a malicious Erlang format string that will expand and consume the heap, resulting in the server crashing.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| pivotalCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.4% · top 8.6% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Pivotal · RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform
- affected 1.16 – < 1.16.7
- affected 1.17 – < 1.17.4
- affected 3.7 – < v3.7.21
- affected 3.8 – < v3.8.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- HexRabbitMQGHSA-hrfh-7j5f-8ccr (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-6497f51791 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-74d2feb5be (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0078 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20210719 [SECURITY] [DLA 2710-1] rabbitmq-server security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hrfh-7j5f-8ccr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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