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CVE-2026-67415· NVD / CVE Program· CNA GitHub_M

RabbitMQ: Shovel Management Atom Exhaustion Allows Persistent Broker-Wide Denial of Service

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.2.0 until 4.2.9 and 4.3.3, the Shovel parameter parser converted attacker-controlled runtime parameter values into non-garbage-collected Erlang atoms before bounding them or checking a fixed allowlist. Exploitation requires network access to the Management HTTP API, valid credentials with both the management and policymaker tags, permission to set Shovel runtime parameters on a vhost, and the rabbitmq_shovel and rabbitmq_shovel_management plugins to be enabled. The attacker can exhaust the node-wide atom table and deny service, and malicious parameters are stored durably and reparsed when workers start, so atom pressure can recur after restart without a live attacker connection. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.9 and 4.3.3.

MediumCVSS 5.9 · v4.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Sep 25, 2026
Updated
Sep 28, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 26th percentile
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Action score

23

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
23 / 40 · 5.9 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GitHub_M
5.9
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Affected systems

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Versions reported by the vendor

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  • rabbitmq rabbitmq-server

    • >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.3, >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.9affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:14rabbitmq-serverall versions—

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    32Monitor
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    32Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-674080 days apartRabbitMQ: Stream Management Super-Stream Binding Keys Allocation Allows Low-Privilege Node Denial of Service
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-672382 days apartRabbitMQ: Atom-table exhaustion via reply-to queue name decoding
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-672260 days apartRabbitMQ: Admin-only atom exhaustion: PUT /api/users tags list
    27Monitor
  • CVE-2026-672282 days apartRabbitMQ: Atom exhaustion: to_atom on runtime-parameter component
    27Monitor
  • CVE-2026-672292 days apartRabbitMQ: Admin-only atom exhaustion: atomize_keys on vhost metadata
    27Monitor
  • CVE-2026-660730 days apartRabbitMQ: Atom table exhaustion via management API node field
    24Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
X

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

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Vulnerable

ts
function expand(node) {  return node.children.map(expand);}

Fixed

ts
const MAX_DEPTH = 32;function expand(node, depth = 0) {  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));}

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