CVE-2023-46118

Published: Oct 25, 2023Modified: Jun 17, 2026

4.9

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.2 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

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 (2)

Products: Vmware: Rabbitmq

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Vmware Rabbitmq	Before 3.11.24
Vmware Rabbitmq	From 3.12.0 to 3.12.7

Related CWEs

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (6)

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-w6cq-9cf4-gqpg

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Vendor Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00009.html

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5571

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-w6cq-9cf4-gqpg

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00009.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5571

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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