CVE-2019-11287
HIGH7.5EPSS 4.6%Pivotal RabbitMQ is vulnerable to a denial of service attack
Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/rabbitmq-serverfrom 0, < 3.8.3-1
- Hex/RabbitMQ>= 3.7.0, < 3.7.21
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (9)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11287
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11287
- PATCHhttps://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078
- WEBhttps://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4
- WEBhttps://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287