SB2016122906 - Improper access control in Pivotal RabbitMQ

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9877)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

An issue was discovered in Pivotal RabbitMQ 3.x before 3.5.8 and 3.6.x before 3.6.6 and RabbitMQ for PCF 1.5.x before 1.5.20, 1.6.x before 1.6.12, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7. MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) connection authentication with a username/password pair succeeds if an existing username is provided but the password is omitted from the connection request. Connections that use TLS with a client-provided certificate are not affected.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3761
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95065
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9877
• https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03880en_us