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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2026-67413 EUVD-2026-87228

RabbitMQ: Authenticated RabbitMQ JMS Topic Selector Users Can Consume Broker CPU with an Unbounded LIKE Regular Expression

Published Sep 25, 2026 · Updated Sep 29, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.0.23, 4.1.14, 4.2.9, and 4.3.3, the optional rabbitmq_jms_topic_exchange plugin's x-jms-topic exchange accepted a client-controlled rjms_erlang_selector binding expression whose LIKE evaluator expanded percent and underscore wildcards into overlapping PCRE fragments. It executed those fragments with raw re:run/3 without match or recursion limits, allowing an authenticated tenant that can bind and publish to consume broker scheduler CPU and deny service with pathological selectors. This issue is fixed in versions 4.0.23, 4.1.14, 4.2.9, and 4.3.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rabbitmq rabbitmq-server >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.9, >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.14, >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.3, >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.23 —

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 4.3.6-1 —
Debian 13 rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
Debian 12 rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rabbitmq-server No fix yet —
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

References