Information disclosure in RabbitMQ - CVE-2016-0929
Published: September 18, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40094
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0929
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: VMware, Inc
Affected software:
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The metrics-collection component in RabbitMQ for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) 1.6.x before 1.6.4 logs command lines of failed commands, which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the log data, as demonstrated by a syslog message that contains credentials from a command line.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-0929
Install update from vendor's website.