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rabbitmq-server — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46118

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.

Products
rabbitmq-server
Affected versions
3.10.8-1.1
Fixed versions
3.10.8-1.1+deb12u1, 3.10.8-3
CVEs
CVE-2023-46118
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 15:59 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46118

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Oct 2023, 18:17 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46118

rabbitmq-server

Fixed versions: 3.10.8-1.1+deb12u1

rabbitmq-server

Fixed versions: 3.10.8-3

rabbitmq-server

Fixed versions: 3.10.8-3

Complete source record
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