CVE-2019-11291
RabbitMQ XSS attack via federation and shovel endpoints
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- pivotal
Description
Pivotal RabbitMQ, 3.7 versions prior to v3.7.20 and 3.8 version prior to v3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for PCF, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain two endpoints, federation and shovel, which do not properly sanitize user input. A remote authenticated malicious user with administrative access could craft a cross site scripting attack via the vhost or node name fields that could grant access to virtual hosts and policy management information.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| pivotalCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Low3.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.80% · top 43% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.1.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 3.8 – < v3.8.1
- affected 3.7 – < v3.7.20
Pivotal · RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform
- affected 1.17 – < 1.17.4
- affected 1.16 – < 1.16.7
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Hexrabbit_commonGHSA-9pf7-f47q-mwpq (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11291 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0553 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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-9pf7-f47q-mwpq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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