SCA: security update for com.rabbitmq:amqp-client (GHSA-mm8h-8587-p46h)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417029

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- The RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with
RabbitMQ nodes. `maxBodyLebgth` was not used when receiving Message objects. Attackers could send a very
large Message causing a memory overflow and triggering an OOM Error. Users of RabbitMQ may suffer from DoS
attacks from RabbitMQ Java client which will ultimately exhaust the memory of the consumer. This
vulnerability was patched in version 5.18.0. (CVE-2023-46120)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mm8h-8587-p46h

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417029

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46120

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46120

cwe: CWE-400