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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.9 Medium

CVE-2026-67227

RabbitMQ: Atom exhaustion: to_atom on global-parameter :name

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7 and 4.3.1, Atom exhaustion: toatom on global-parameter :name. resourceexists/2 (and the PUT/DELETE handlers) call rabbitdatacoercion:toatom/1 on the :name URL path segment. toatom/1 uses binarytoatom/2 (unsafe). The endpoint requires policymaker (not management, but below A user with the policymaker tag can crash the node by exhausting the atom table via repeated requests to /api/global-parameters/:name with unique :name Management plugin enabled policymaker tag ~1M HTTP. This issue is fixed in versions 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7 and 4.3.1.

Affected products

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

rabbitmq rabbitmq-server

  • >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.22affected
  • >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.14affected
  • >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.7affected
  • >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.1affected

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