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Description

The RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. Prior to 5.33.1, src/main/java/com/rabbitmq/client/impl/ValueReader.java permits ValueReader.readTable and ValueReader.readArray to call ValueReader.readFieldValue recursively for AMQP table type F and AMQP array type A values without a nesting-depth limit. A malicious AMQP server or network intermediary can send approximately 580 nested table levels in the pre-authentication connection.start frame, fitting within the default 131072-byte frame maximum, to trigger StackOverflowError. The error terminates the client input processing thread and causes denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 5.33.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rabbitmq rabbitmq-java-client < 5.33.1 —

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 13 rabbitmq-java-client No fix yet —
Debian 12 rabbitmq-java-client No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rabbitmq-java-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS rabbitmq-java-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rabbitmq-java-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS rabbitmq-java-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS rabbitmq-java-client No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS rabbitmq-java-client No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling cassandra-reaper 5.0.0-r9 —
Wolfi rolling druid 37.0.0-r54 —
Wolfi rolling logstash-9.3 +1 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling logstash-9.4 +1 9.4.5-r3 —
Wolfi rolling thingsboard-tb-node +1 4.3.1.3-r23 —
Wolfi rolling zipkin 3.6.1-r22 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.rabbitmq:amqp-client < 5.33.1 5.33.1 GHSA-93j5-89vc-pph4

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