Cross-site scripting in RabbitMQ - CVE-2014-9649
Published: January 27, 2015 / Updated: August 19, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40925
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9649
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.
An input validation error exists in the management plugin in RabbitMQ 2.1.0 through 3.4.x before 3.4.1 when processing path info to api/, which is not properly handled in an error message. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
RabbitMQ
Fedora
rabbitmq-server
Fedora
rabbitmq-server
How to mitigate CVE-2014-9649
Install update from vendor's website.
RabbitMQ - update to 3.4.1
rabbitmq-server - update to 3.3.5-12.el7
rabbitmq-server - update to 3.3.5-12.el7