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CVE-2026-67227

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RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker.

Vendor / product: Broadcom — rabbitmq server

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.

CVSS
4.9
4.9 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-25 17:17
Modified: 2026-10-20 13:35
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:55 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

broadcom / rabbitmq_server ≥4.0.0 <4.0.22, ≥4.1.0 <4.1.14, ≥4.2.0 <4.2.7, ≥4.3.0 <4.3.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-q7x8-97rh-cr24
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/8fbe6d8112427e85fb9a9206b3eb6e9a3ddd3e39
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/fc591e7ee27a29657ca960930acefd3e4217e007
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.7
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.1

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:55 UTC · record ↗

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