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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2026-67229 json

RabbitMQ: Admin-only atom exhaustion: atomize_keys on vhost metadata

published 2026-09-23 46 d ago modified 2026-10-20 19 d ago also BIT-rabbitmq-2026-67229 , EUVD-2026-85650 , GHSA-ggrw-qm45-hwpv

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0, add_vhost/2 calls rabbit_data_coercion:atomize_keys/1 (the unsafe variant using binary_to_atom) on the vhost metadata map. The 20 MB management body limit fits ~1M+ short keys. Admin-only. An administrator importing a crafted definitions file can crash the node in a single request: a vhosts entry with ~1M unique metadata keys exhausts the atom table during import. Preconditions include administrator tag. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami rabbitmq 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6
  • vmware rabbitmq 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6
  • pivotal_software rabbitmq 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6
  • rabbitmq-server Debian 14 4.3.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-67229

  • rabbitmq-server4.3 hummingbird 1 4.3.6-1.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:67552

  • rabbitmq-server Azure Linux 3.0 3.13.7-10

azure linux advisories AZL-105804

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-67229 updated cvss 4.9

RabbitMQ: RabbitMQ: Denial of Service via admin-only atom exhaustion from crafted vhost metadata

  • Red Hat Hardened Images rabbitmq-server4.2 4.2.9-0.2.hum1
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images rabbitmq-server4.3 4.3.6-1.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:67552

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
45 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-ggrw-qm45-hwpv referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami rabbitmq
>=3.13.0, <3.13.15
>=4.0.0, <4.0.20
>=4.1.0, <4.1.11
>=4.2.0, <4.2.6
3.13.15
4.0.20
4.1.11
4.2.6

Affected products

  • rabbitmq rabbitmq-server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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