VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-46118

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.32%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-10-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-400
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-400

Primary references