🛡️ CVE-2019-11287 — rabbitmq

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-134 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Pivotal RabbitMQ is vulnerable to a denial of service attack

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 this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2019-11287 is classified as CWE-134: Externally Controlled Format String. User input is used as a format string, letting an attacker read or write memory through format specifiers.

Affected software

CVE-2019-11287 is recorded against 1 package.

  • rabbitmq

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 10 December 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.debian.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
pivotal.io (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-134
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-12-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
rabbitmq — —

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