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Fencer Vulns
low 3.1

CVE-2019-11291 json

RabbitMQ XSS attack via federation and shovel endpoints

published 2019-11-22 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9pf7-f47q-mwpq , EUVD-2022-3419

cvss
3.1
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Pivotal RabbitMQ, 3.7 versions prior to v3.7.20 and 3.8 version prior to v3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for PCF, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain two endpoints, federation and shovel, which do not properly sanitize user input. A remote authenticated malicious user with administrative access could craft a cross site scripting attack via the vhost or node name fields that could grant access to virtual hosts and policy management information.

Patch / fix

  • hex rabbit_common 3.7.20, 3.8.1
  • Pivotal RabbitMQ v3.7.20, v3.8.1
  • Pivotal RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform 1.16.7, 1.17.4
  • rabbitmq-server Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.8.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11291

  • rabbitmq-server openstack 15 3.7.23-2.el8ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:0553

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-2019-11291 updated cvss 3.1

rabbitmq-server: not properly sanitized user input may lead to XSS

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) rabbitmq-server
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 (Train) rabbitmq-server
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15.0 rabbitmq-server 3.7.23-2.el8ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0553
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 rabbitmq-server Red Hat Ansible Tower 3 rabbitmq-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) rabbitmq-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) rabbitmq-server
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

Exploit prediction

0.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 3.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 3.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
hex rabbit_common
>=3.7.0, <3.7.20
>=3.8.0, <3.8.1
3.7.20
3.8.1

Affected products

  • Pivotal RabbitMQ
  • Pivotal RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.