RabbitMQ: Admin-only atom exhaustion: PUT /api/users tags list (rabbitmq rabbitmq-server)

CVE-2026-67226
MEDIUM 6.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.39 % · percentile 33 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7, Admin-only atom exhaustion: PUT /api/users tags list. settags/2 maps rabbitdatacoercion:toatom/1 over the user's tags list. The 20 MB management body limit fits ~3-4M short tag strings. An administrator can crash the node in a single request by creating a user (or importing definitions) with ~1M unique tag administrator. This issue is fixed in versions 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/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:XNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
rabbitmq · rabbitmq-serveraffected >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.22 ; affected >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.14 ; affected >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.7

Sources

SourceLicence
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ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
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