CVE-2016-9877

critical
Published 2016-12-29 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.6.6-1
sid Fixed 3.6.6-1
forky Fixed 3.6.6-1
bullseye Fixed 3.6.6-1
bookworm Fixed 3.6.6-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.0.0
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.0.1
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.0.2
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.0.3
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.0.4
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.1.0
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.1.1
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.1.2
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.1.3
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.1.4
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.1.5
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.2.0
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.2.1
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.2.2
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.2.3
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.2.4
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.3.0
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.3.1
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.3.2
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.3.3
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.3.4
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.3.5
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.4.0
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.4.1
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.4.2
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.4.3
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.4.4
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.5.0
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.5.1
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.5.2
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.5.3
vmware broadcomrabbitmq_server3.5.6
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq3.5.4
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq3.5.5
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq3.5.7
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq3.6.0
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq3.6.1
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq3.6.2
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq3.6.3
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq3.6.4
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq3.6.5
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.0
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.1
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.2
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.3
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.4
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.5
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.6
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.7
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.8
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.9
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.10
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.11
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.12
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.13
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.14
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.15
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.17
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.5.18
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.0
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.1
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.2
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.3
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.4
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.5
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.6
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.7
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.8
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.9
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.6.10
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.7.0
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.7.2
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.7.3
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.7.4
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.7.5
pivotal_softwarerabbitmq1.7.6

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.