pivotalsoftware rabbitmq CVE-2019-11287 vulnerability in Pivotal Software and Other Products
Published on November 23, 2019

RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin DoS via heap overflow

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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.

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Weakness Type

What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?

The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

CVE-2019-11287 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2019-11287

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Pivotal Software Rabbitmq
 
Canonical Ubuntu Linux
 
Fedora Project Fedora
 
Red Hat Openstack
 
VMware Rabbitmq
 
Debian Linux
 
Broadcom Rabbitmq Server
 

Affected Versions

RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform: Pivotal RabbitMQ:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
3.05%
Percentile
86.44%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.