Skip to content
CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.9 Medium

CVE-2026-106121

RabbitMQ: JSONReader in the default JSON-RPC mapper never terminates on truncated input, causing DoS

Description

The RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. Prior to 5.37.0, com.rabbitmq.tools.json.JSONReader.read() fails to terminate when input ends inside a quoted string or a line comment because its string and whitespace scanners do not stop at CharacterIterator.DONE. The default DefaultJsonRpcMapper passes JSON-RPC message bodies to this parser for JsonRpcServer and client replies. A truncated string causes the parser to append replacement end markers until heap exhaustion, while a line comment without a terminating newline can keep a thread consuming CPU indefinitely, resulting in denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 5.37.0.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

rabbitmq rabbitmq-java-client

  • < 5.36.1affected

com.rabbitmq amqp-client

  • < 5.36.1affected

References