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CVE-2026-67414: RabbitMQ AMQP 1.0 parser: amplification memory-exhaustion DoS via zero-width array aggregation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-14 · updated 2026-10-29
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.0.24, 4.1.15, 4.2.10, and 4.3.4, deps/amqp10_common/src/amqp10_binary_parser.erl materializes each element of AMQP 1.0 arrays whose shared constructor has zero width, while limiting only the number of elements in each array and not the aggregate arrays in a frame. After completing SASL authentication, a low-privilege client can send an ordinary frame containing many individually permitted arrays, causing a small frame to expand into a very large reader-process heap before later frame validation or authorization. Because deps/rabbit/src/rabbit_amqp_reader.erl clears the pre-authentication max_heap_size guard after login, repeated or concurrent frames can trigger the node-wide memory alarm, block publishers, or exhaust broker memory. This issue is fixed in versions 4.0.24, 4.1.15, 4.2.10, and 4.3.4.

Affected products

• rabbitmq-server: from 4.0.0, < 4.0.24; from 4.1.0, < 4.1.15; from 4.2.0, < 4.2.10; from 4.3.0, < 4.3.4

References

• https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/commit/3f0f67dfb7c4390e3cbfa25ab3ee19dcb0845bd4
• https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.4
• https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-w6mq-4qpx-v7mh
• https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-w6mq-4qpx-v7mh

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