CVE-2019-11287

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Published 2022-05-24 · Modified 2025-12-10

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

Pivotal RabbitMQ, versions 3.7.x prior to 3.7.21 and 3.8.x prior to 3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain a web management plugin that is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. The "X-Reason" HTTP Header can be leveraged to insert a malicious Erlang format string that will expand and consume the heap, resulting in the server crashing.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

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 Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.8.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.8.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.8.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.8.3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.8.3-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Hex	RabbitMQ	`>=3.7.0,<3.7.21`	`3.7.21`
Hex	RabbitMQ	`>=3.8.0,<3.8.1`	`3.8.1`
Hex	RabbitMQ	`<1.16.7`	`1.16.7`
Hex	RabbitMQ	`>=1.17.0,<1.17.4`	`1.17.4`

References

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

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