SB2026050695 - Security restrictions bypass in RabbitMQ
Published: May 6, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to bypass topic authorization and access restricted topics.
The vulnerability exists due to improper neutralization of special elements in the MQTT topic permission authorization logic when substituting user-supplied client_id values into regular expression patterns. A remote user can supply a crafted client_id containing regex metacharacters to bypass topic authorization and access restricted topics.
This issue affects deployments that use variable substitution such as {client_id} in MQTT topic authorization patterns.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.