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Cross-site Scripting in RabbitMQ

Low severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

erlang rabbit_common (Erlang)

Affected versions

>= 3.7.0, < 3.7.20
>= 3.8.0, < 3.8.1

Patched versions

3.7.20
3.8.1

Description

Pivotal RabbitMQ, 3.7 versions prior to v3.7.20 and 3.8 version prior to v3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for PCF, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain two endpoints, federation and shovel, which do not properly sanitize user input. A remote authenticated malicious user with administrative access could craft a cross site scripting attack via the vhost or node name fields that could grant access to virtual hosts and policy management information.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 22, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Jul 5, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Low
3.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-11291

GHSA ID

GHSA-9pf7-f47q-mwpq

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