Resource exhaustion in RabbitMQ Java Client Library - CVE-2023-46120
Published: November 22, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU83414
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46120
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: VMware, Inc
Affected software:
RabbitMQ Java Client Library
RabbitMQ Java Client Library
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. A remote attacker can send a very large Message causing a memory overflow and triggering an OOM Error to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2023-46120
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/releases/tag/v5.18.0
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/issues/1062
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/security/advisories/GHSA-mm8h-8587-p46h
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/commit/714aae602dcae6cb4b53cadf009323ebac313cc8