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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-67232 EUVD-2026-85657

RabbitMQ: Web-MQTT decompression bomb

Published Sep 23, 2026 · Updated Sep 24, 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, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0, The cowboy WebSocket options at line 117 set compress => true, enabling RFC 7692 permessage-deflate negotiation. The handler does not set max_frame_size, so cowboy's default of infinity applies. cowlib's cow_ws:parse_payload/9 calls zlib:inflate/2 on the compressed payload with no output-size limit. An attacker can negotiate permessage-deflate during the WebSocket upgrade and send a frame containing a zlib bomb (e.g. 50 KB → 5 GB). Decompression occurs in the connection process before websocket_handle/2 ever sees the MQTT bytes. An unauthenticated attacker can crash a RabbitMQ node running the Web-MQTT plugin by sending a single highly-compressed WebSocket frame (a few KB on the wire) that inflates to gigabytes in memory. The cowboy WebSocket handler decompresses the entire frame before the MQTT CONNECT packet is processed, so no credentials are required. Preconditions include rabbitmq_web_mqtt plugin enabled (not default, but common for browser clients) Network reachability to port 15675/15676 No authentication required. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0.

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 —

Advisories 3

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