CVE-2026-67227

medium

Description

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.

References

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-q7x8-97rh-cr24

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.1

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.7

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/fc591e7ee27a29657ca960930acefd3e4217e007

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/8fbe6d8112427e85fb9a9206b3eb6e9a3ddd3e39

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: 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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00288