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CVE-2021-22116 (GCVE-0-2021-22116)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-08 11:23 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:30
VLAI
Summary
RabbitMQ all versions prior to 3.8.16 are prone to a denial of service vulnerability due to improper input validation in AMQP 1.0 client connection endpoint. A malicious user can exploit the vulnerability by sending malicious AMQP messages to the target RabbitMQ instance having the AMQP 1.0 plugin enabled.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a RabbitMQ Affected: RabbitMQ prior to version 3.8.16
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