RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin DoS via heap overflow (Pivotal RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform)

CVE-2019-11287
MEDIUM 4.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 4.40 % · percentile 91 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
pivotal
NVD status
Modified

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-134 — Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 4.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hpivotal
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 4.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · security@pivotal.io (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Pivotal · RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platformaffected 1.16 < 1.16.7 ; affected 1.17 < 1.17.4
Pivotal · RabbitMQaffected 3.7 < v3.7.21 ; affected 3.8 < v3.8.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD