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CVE-2017-4966

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

An issue was discovered in these Pivotal RabbitMQ versions: all 3.4.x versions, all 3.5.x versions, and 3.6.x versions prior to 3.6.9; and these RabbitMQ for PCF versions: all 1.5.x versions, 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.18, and 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.15. RabbitMQ management UI stores signed-in user credentials in a browser's local storage without expiration, making it possible to retrieve them using a chained attack.

Affected products

• rabbitmq-server: 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 3.5.0 (+5)
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Pivotal RabbitMQ: 3.5.4, 3.5.5, 3.5.7, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2 (+51)

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4966
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4966

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