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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-67227 EUVD-2026-87237

RabbitMQ: Atom exhaustion: to_atom on global-parameter :name

Published Sep 25, 2026 · Updated Sep 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7 and 4.3.1, Atom exhaustion: toatom on global-parameter :name. resourceexists/2 (and the PUT/DELETE handlers) call rabbitdatacoercion:toatom/1 on the :name URL path segment. toatom/1 uses binarytoatom/2 (unsafe). The endpoint requires policymaker (not management, but below A user with the policymaker tag can crash the node by exhausting the atom table via repeated requests to /api/global-parameters/:name with unique :name Management plugin enabled policymaker tag ~1M HTTP. This issue is fixed in versions 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7 and 4.3.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rabbitmq rabbitmq-server >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.22, >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.14, >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.7, >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.1 —

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 4.3.2-1 —
Debian 13 rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
Debian 12 rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
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-server4.3 4.3.6-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:67552

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 rabbitmq-server 3.13.7-10 —

Advisories 2

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