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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-67238 EUVD-2026-85624

RabbitMQ: Atom-table exhaustion via reply-to queue name decoding

Published Sep 23, 2026 · Updated Sep 24, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 4.2.7 and 4.3.1, rabbit_pid_codec:decompose_from_binary/1 parses a caller-supplied ETF-encoded binary and calls binary_to_atom(Node, utf8) on the node-name field. It is reached from rabbit_volatile_queue:pid_from_name/2, which is invoked for any queue name / routing key beginning amq.rabbitmq.reply-to.. The CandidateNodes membership check happens after the atom is created, and the surrounding try/catch cannot reclaim atoms (they are never GC'd). binary_to_existing_atom is not used. Any authenticated AMQP client can crash the entire Erlang VM (all vhosts, all connections) with ~1M cheap requests. Preconditions include Authenticated AMQP 0-9-1 connection to any vhost No per-connection rate limit low enough to make ~1M operations infeasible. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.7 and 4.3.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rabbitmq rabbitmq-server >= 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 —
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

Advisories 3

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