CVE-2023-46118

MediumCVSS 4.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.9/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
rabbitmq	rabbitmq-server	< 3.12.7; < 3.11.24

References

Timeline

Published: Oct 25, 2023
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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