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RabbitMQ: Shovel Management Atom Exhaustion Allows Persistent Broker-Wide Denial of Service

Type: advisorySources: OSV

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.2.0 until 4.2.9 and 4.3.3, the Shovel parameter parser converted attacker-controlled runtime parameter values into non-garbage-collected Erlang atoms before bounding them or checking a fixed allowlist. Exploitation requires network access to the Management HTTP API, valid credentials with both the management and policymaker tags, permission to set Shovel runtime parameters on a vhost, and the rabbitmq_shovel and rabbitmq_shovel_management plugins to be enabled. The attacker can exhaust the node-wide atom table and deny service, and malicious parameters are stored durably and reparsed when workers start, so atom pressure can recur after restart without a live attacker connection. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.9 and 4.3.3.

Products
rabbitmq
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.2.9, 4.3.3
CVEs
CVE-2026-67415
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 23:59 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

RabbitMQ: Shovel Management Atom Exhaustion Allows Persistent Broker-Wide Denial of Service

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Oct 2026, 09:33 UTC

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.2.0 until 4.2.9 and 4.3.3, the Shovel parameter parser converted attacker-controlled runtime parameter values into non-garbage-collected Erlang atoms before bounding them or checking a fixed allowlist. Exploitation requires network access to the Management HTTP API, valid credentials with both the management and policymaker tags, permission to set Shovel runtime parameters on a vhost, and the rabbitmq_shovel and rabbitmq_shovel_management plugins to be enabled. The attacker can exhaust the node-wide atom table and deny service, and malicious parameters are stored durably and reparsed when workers start, so atom pressure can recur after restart without a live attacker connection. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.9 and 4.3.3.

osv:BIT-rabbitmq-2026-67415

rabbitmq

Fixed versions: 4.2.9, 4.3.3

Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-rabbitmq-2026-67415",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "RabbitMQ: Shovel Management Atom Exhaustion Allows Persistent Broker-Wide Denial of Service",
    "summary": "RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.2.0 until 4.2.9 and 4.3.3, the Shovel parameter parser converted attacker-controlled runtime parameter values into non-garbage-collected Erlang atoms before bounding them or checking a fixed allowlist. Exploitation requires network access to the Management HTTP API, valid credentials with both the management and policymaker tags, permission to set Shovel runtime parameters on a vhost, and the rabbitmq_shovel and rabbitmq_shovel_management plugins to be enabled. The attacker can exhaust the node-wide atom table and deny service, and malicious parameters are stored durably and reparsed when workers start, so atom pressure can recur after restart without a live attacker connection. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.9 and 4.3.3.",
    "evidence": "osv:BIT-rabbitmq-2026-67415",
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          }
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      }
    ],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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        "GHSA-8mpg-qw9r-m5cr"
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                {
                  "introduced": "4.3.0"
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                {
                  "fixed": "4.3.3"
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "rabbitmq",
            "purl": "pkg:bitnami/rabbitmq",
            "ecosystem": "Bitnami"
          },
          "severity": [
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              "type": "CVSS_V4",
              "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X"
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-17T09:15:02.417734850Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.9",
        "https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.3",
        "https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-8mpg-qw9r-m5cr",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-67415"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 352242,
  "published_at": "2026-10-01T09:33:56.453+00:00"
}