Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 24, 2023· Updated Feb 13, 2025
Denial of Service by publishing large messages over the HTTP API
CVE-2023-46118
Description
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.
Affected products
12- osv-coords11 versionspkg:bitnami/rabbitmqpkg:rpm/opensuse/elixir115&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/erlang26&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/rabbitmq-server313&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/rabbitmq-server&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/rabbitmq-server&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/suse/elixir115&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/erlang26&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/rabbitmq-server313&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/rabbitmq-server&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/rabbitmq-server&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5
< 3.11.24+ 10 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.11.24
- (no CPE)range: < 1.15.7-150300.7.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 26.2.1-150300.7.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.13.1-150600.13.5.3
- (no CPE)range: < 3.8.11-150300.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.8.11-150300.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.15.7-150300.7.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 26.2.1-150300.7.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.13.1-150600.13.5.3
- (no CPE)range: < 3.8.11-150300.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.8.11-150300.3.14.1
- Range: < 3.12.7
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
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