CVE-2019-11287
Pivotal RabbitMQ is vulnerable to a denial of service attack
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 4.6%
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.
How to fix CVE-2019-11287
To remediate CVE-2019-11287, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 3.8.3-1 or later
- —upgrade to 3.7.21 or later
Is CVE-2019-11287 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 4.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 3.8.3-1
- >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.21
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |