Vulnerability CVE-2019-11287


Published: 2019-11-23   Modified: 2019-11-24

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-400

(Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Pivotal software -> Rabbitmq 

 References:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287

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