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.
Published: 2019-11-22
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 4.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2710-1 rabbitmq-server security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-4206 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hrfh-7j5f-8ccr Pivotal RabbitMQ is vulnerable to a denial of service attack
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5004-1 RabbitMQ vulnerabilities
History

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Broadcom
Broadcom rabbitmq Server
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:vmware:rabbitmq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Vmware
Vmware rabbitmq
Broadcom
Broadcom rabbitmq Server

Subscriptions

Broadcom Rabbitmq Server
Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Pivotal Software Rabbitmq
Redhat Openstack
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: pivotal

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:24:51.121Z

Reserved: 2019-04-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-11287

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-23T00:15:10.683

Modified: 2025-04-02T14:13:43.180

Link: CVE-2019-11287

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-12-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-11287 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses