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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-57221 EUVD-2026-43023

RabbitMQ: Passive queue/exchange declaration bypasses authorization checks, leaking queue metadata to unprivileged users

Published Jul 10, 2026 · Updated Jul 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6, RabbitMQ does not perform authorization checks on passive queue.declare and exchange.declare AMQP 0-9-1 operations, allowing any authenticated user who can connect to a virtual host to enumerate queue and exchange names and read queue message and consumer counts. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rabbitmq rabbitmq-server >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.6, >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.11, >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.21, >= 3.13.0, < 3.13.15 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rabbitmq-server 4.3.0-2 —
Debian 13 rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
Debian 12 rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rabbitmq-server4.2 4.2.8-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:35940
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rabbitmq-server4.3 4.3.2-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:35939
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 rabbitmq-server 4.1.5-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23869-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23859-1
SLES 16.0 rabbitmq-server 4.1.5-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23869-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23859-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 rabbitmq-server 4.1.5-160000.2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21903-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 rabbitmq-server 3.13.7-8 —

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