CVE-2019-11287
RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin DoS via heap overflow
HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.4%
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.
- Affected
- Pivotal · RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform · RabbitMQ
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v3.0 PIVOTAL
- 4.5 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 5.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 4.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 91st percentile
- Published
- 2019-11-22
- Updated
- 2024-09-16
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ…92★ · 2022-02-13
- mbadanoiu/CVE-2019-112870★ · 2025-04-07
Security advisories
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html
- advisories/GHSA-hrfh-7j5f-8ccr