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High · 7.3 CVE-2026-66077 EUVD-2026-85628

RabbitMQ: Stored XSS via TLS peer-certificate DN in management UI

Published Sep 23, 2026 · Updated Sep 29, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6, The management UI uses EJS 1.0 in which <%= ... %> does NOT HTML-escape. connection.ejs:135 renders <%= connection.ssl_details.peer_cert_subject %> (and peer_cert_issuer) directly into the page. The same pattern appears in streamConnection.ejs:102,106,110. The values come from rabbit_ssl:peer_cert_subject/1 which formats the DN as a string without HTML escaping. The verifier corrected the original researcher's claim: this is reachable only when the listener is configured with verify_peer (so the certificate must be signed by a CA in the broker's trust store, not arbitrary self-signed); however, in deployments using mTLS for client authentication, any user who can request a certificate from the organisational CA controls the Subject CN. An attacker who can obtain a TLS client certificate signed by a CA the broker trusts (with verify_peer enabled) can embed JavaScript in the certificate's Subject DN. When any administrator views that connection in the management UI, the script executes in the admin's browser session, allowing full account takeover (create users, export definitions, etc.). The management UI's CSP includes 'unsafe-inline', so inline script execution is not blocked. Preconditions include TLS listener configured with ssl_options.verify = verify_peer Attacker can obtain a CA-signed client certificate with attacker-chosen Subject (e.g. self-service corporate PKI, or rabbitmq_trust_store plugin in use) Administrator views the connection detail page. 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 >= 3.13.0, < 3.13.15, >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.20, >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.11, >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.6 —

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 26.04 LTS rabbitmq-server 4.0.5-10ubuntu5.2 USN-8933-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rabbitmq-server 3.12.1-1ubuntu1.7 USN-8933-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS rabbitmq-server 3.9.27-0ubuntu0.6 USN-8933-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS rabbitmq-server 3.8.3-0ubuntu0.3+esm2 USN-8933-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS rabbitmq-server 3.6.10-1ubuntu0.5+esm1 USN-8933-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS rabbitmq-server 3.5.7-1ubuntu0.16.04.4+esm3 USN-8933-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rabbitmq-server4.3 4.3.6-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:67552

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 rabbitmq-server No fix yet —

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