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CVE-2019-11287

MEDIUM
Published 2019-11-22T23:26:08.880149Z
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CVSS Score

V3.0
4.5
/10
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.009
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.9% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.752
Higher than 75.2% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Pivotal

RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform

Affected Versions:

1.16 1.17
Pivotal

RabbitMQ

Affected Versions:

3.7 3.8

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Pivotal RabbitMQ is vulnerable to a denial of service attack

GHSA-hrfh-7j5f-8ccr

Advisory Details

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.

Affected Packages

Hex RabbitMQ
ECOSYSTEM: ≥3.7.0 <3.7.21
Hex RabbitMQ
ECOSYSTEM: ≥3.8.0 <3.8.1
Hex RabbitMQ
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <1.16.7
Hex RabbitMQ
ECOSYSTEM: ≥1.17.0 <1.17.4

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

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

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11287
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078
WEB https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin
PACKAGE https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server
WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html
WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO
WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4
WEB https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 24, 2022, Modified: April 2, 2025

References

https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078
https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html
Published: 2019-11-22T23:26:08.880149Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-16T22:24:51.121Z
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