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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2026-67227 json

RabbitMQ: Atom exhaustion: to_atom on global-parameter :name

published 2026-09-25 44 d ago modified 2026-10-21 19 d ago also BIT-rabbitmq-2026-67227 , EUVD-2026-87237 , GHSA-q7x8-97rh-cr24

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 31%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7 and 4.3.1, Atom exhaustion: toatom on global-parameter :name. resourceexists/2 (and the PUT/DELETE handlers) call rabbitdatacoercion:toatom/1 on the :name URL path segment. toatom/1 uses binarytoatom/2 (unsafe). The endpoint requires policymaker (not management, but below A user with the policymaker tag can crash the node by exhausting the atom table via repeated requests to /api/global-parameters/:name with unique :name Management plugin enabled policymaker tag ~1M HTTP. This issue is fixed in versions 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7 and 4.3.1.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami rabbitmq 4.0.22, 4.1.14, 4.2.7, 4.3.1
  • pivotal_software rabbitmq 4.0.22, 4.1.14, 4.2.7, 4.3.1
  • vmware rabbitmq 4.0.22, 4.1.14, 4.2.7, 4.3.1
  • rabbitmq-server Debian 14 4.3.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-67227

  • 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-105293

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-2026-67227 updated cvss 4.9

rabbitmq-server: rabbitmq-server: Denial of Service via atom exhaustion in global parameters API

  • Red Hat Hardened Images rabbitmq-server4.2 4.2.9-0.2.hum1
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) rabbitmq-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 rabbitmq-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 rabbitmq-server
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 rabbitmq-server
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • 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
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
44 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 5.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/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
>=4.0.0, <4.0.22
>=4.1.0, <4.1.14
>=4.2.0, <4.2.7
>=4.3.0, <4.3.1
4.0.22
4.1.14
4.2.7
4.3.1

Affected products

  • rabbitmq rabbitmq-server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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