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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-66079 EUVD-2026-85627

RabbitMQ: Pre-auth AMQP 1.0 array32 zero-width element DoS

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, parse_array_primitive/2 for constructor 0x45 (list0) returns an element with byte-width B = 0. The enclosing array32 parser at line 148 reads a 4-byte Count from the wire and loops Count times consuming B bytes each , with B = 0, no input is consumed and the loop builds a list of Count empty elements bounded only by the 32-bit field. The SASL-mechanisms / SASL-init frame is parsed by amqp10_framing:decode_bin/1 from rabbit_amqp_reader.erl:412 before authentication completes. The pre-auth incoming_max_frame_size (default 8192 bytes) caps the frame, not the Count field, so a 19-byte payload with Count = 0xFFFFFFFF is accepted. No max_heap_size is set on the reader process. An unauthenticated network attacker can crash any RabbitMQ node that has the AMQP 1.0 listener enabled (default port 5672) by sending a single ~19-byte frame. The reader process attempts to build a list of ~4 billion empty elements, exhausting heap memory and terminating the Erlang VM. All tenants and protocols on the node lose service. Preconditions include Network reachability to the AMQP listener (port 5672, enabled by default) No authentication required. 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 3.13.7-10 —

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