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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 5
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/8fbe6d8112427e85fb9a9206b3eb6e9a3ddd3e39 Patch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/fc591e7ee27a29657ca960930acefd3e4217e007 Patch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.7 Release Notes, Patch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.1 Release Notes, Patch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-q7x8-97rh-cr24 Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.9 · broadcomNVD modified 2026-10-20 13:35
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/8fbe6d8112427e85fb9a9206b3eb6e9a3ddd3e39 Patch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/fc591e7ee27a29657ca960930acefd3e4217e007 Patch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.7 Release Notes, Patch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.1 Release Notes, Patch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-q7x8-97rh-cr24 Vendor Advisory