Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate to broker with valid credentials
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DeliveryDeclare foreign binding to victim's amq.rabbitmq.reply-to
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ExploitStale route persists past unbind in Khepri
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ExecutionCapture RPC reply messages meant for other client
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ImpactDisclose confidential response data
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated broker connection (CVSS PR:L) with permission to declare bindings within a virtual host shared with the victim's RPC workload, and the deployment must use the direct reply-to pattern via the amq.rabbitmq.reply-to pseudo-destination with the Khepri metadata store. The attacker creates a foreign binding to another connection's volatile direct-reply-to queue, which is accepted at bind/route time but not removed by Khepri deletion checks, leaving a persistent route after unbind. Exploitation is limited by the need for valid credentials, high attack complexity (AC:H - the attacker must contend with the volatile lifecycle and timing of another client's reply-to queue), and the requirement that the target actually uses the direct reply-to RPC pattern in a shared vhost; single-tenant brokers or workloads not using amq.rabbitmq.reply-to are not exposed. |
| Impact | The vendor CVSS 4.0 score is 7.0 (High) with vector AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N - network-reachable but requiring low-level authentication (PR:L) and, importantly, high attack complexity (AC:H), with impact limited to confidentiality of the vulnerable system (VC:H) and a subsequent-system confidentiality impact (SC:H), and no integrity or availability impact. This is a confidentiality/authorization-boundary issue (a client reading RPC replies destined for others), not RCE or DoS. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or SSVC decision was supplied, and no POC is referenced - only upstream fix PRs and commits. The AC:H rating and PR:L requirement meaningfully constrain real-world risk: an attacker needs valid broker credentials and must win a timing/route-persistence condition, so this is a targeted lateral-information-disclosure risk in multi-tenant or shared-credential broker deployments rather than a mass-exploitable internet-facing threat. The 'Authentication Bypass' tag is somewhat imprecise - the CWE-863 root cause and PR:L vector indicate an authorization/isolation failure between authenticated clients, not an unauthenticated bypass; treat that tag with caution. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker holding valid broker credentials in a multi-tenant RabbitMQ deployment binds a queue of their own to another client's amq.rabbitmq.reply-to destination; because the volatile route entry is not cleaned up in Khepri's deletion checks, the foreign binding persists and the attacker receives RPC reply messages intended for the legitimate requester, disclosing confidential response data. No public POC is referenced, and the high attack complexity means the attacker must satisfy timing/route-persistence conditions to reliably capture replies. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jul 10, 2026
Improper authorization in RabbitMQ broker (versions prior to 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6) allows an authenticated client to create foreign bindings against another connection's volatile amq.rabbitmq.reply-to (direct reply-to) destination, so persistent route entries survive after unbind and can leak RPC reply traffic intended for other clients. The flaw stems from Khepri-backed deletion checks that omit these volatile pseudo-queues, letting stale routes persist. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; exploitation requires valid credentials and has high attack complexity per the vendor CVSS 4.0 vector.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to RabbitMQ 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, or 4.2.6 (or later) depending on your branch - these are the exact fixed versions named by the vendor. Follow the advisory GHSA-5cq3-v9jx-p3x3 (https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-5cq3-v9jx-p3x3); the fix is delivered via pull requests https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/pull/15935 and https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/pull/15938 and commits 9055500d10ca7629dd2b051c6dc7a4b0bb8f6734 and c84f3c880e0f22b49c01237cf8f86e176eeadc72, with the 4.2.6 release at https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.6. If immediate patching is not possible, compensating controls include tightening per-vhost and per-user permissions so untrusted clients cannot share a virtual host with sensitive RPC workloads (isolate tenants into separate vhosts), and restricting broker access to trusted application accounts only - the trade-off is operational overhead and potential disruption to clients that legitimately rely on shared vhosts. Avoiding or restricting the direct reply-to (amq.rabbitmq.reply-to) RPC pattern for sensitive traffic reduces exposure but requires application-level changes to the RPC design.
Affected VersionsENISA
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
RabbitMQ's amq.rabbitmq.reply-to is a pseudo-destination used for the direct reply-to RPC pattern: it creates ephemeral, volatile queues that live only for the duration of a request/response exchange rather than being declared as durable objects. Khepri is RabbitMQ's Raft-based metadata store (the successor to the Mnesia-based schema database) that tracks queues, exchanges, and bindings. Per CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization), the root cause is that these volatile direct-reply-to queues are validated and accepted at bind and route time but are absent from Khepri's deletion/unbind checks, so route entries are not properly torn down and no authorization boundary prevents a foreign connection from binding to another client's reply-to destination. The affected component is the rabbitmq-server messaging broker (cpe:2.3:a:rabbitmq:rabbitmq-server), specifically its binding and routing subsystem when backed by the Khepri metadata store.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
Authenticated client (PR:L) over the network (AV:N) exploiting a timing/route-persistence race (AC:H) to read another client's replies, crossing a trust boundary (S:C) with confidentiality-only impact (C:H, I:N, A:N).
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).
CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionCVE.org
RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6, RabbitMQ allows foreign bindings to amq.rabbitmq.reply-to destinations because volatile direct-reply-to queues can be accepted at bind and route time but are missing from Khepri-backed deletion checks, leaving persistent route entries after unbind. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6.
Executive ViewAI
RabbitMQ broker versions below 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6 contain an improper authorization flaw that allows authenticated clients to intercept and reroute RPC reply messages intended for other clients, creating unintended exposure of application traffic. No vendor patch is currently available, requiring immediate implementation of compensating controls for organizations operating affected RabbitMQ infrastructure.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Restrict RabbitMQ broker network access to trusted zones only via firewall rules. Implement strict role-based access controls limiting client creation permissions to authorized application accounts only. Disable RabbitMQ direct reply-to functionality if business operations allow. Monitor broker audit logs and network traffic for unexpected RPC communication patterns between clients.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Sensitive credential disclosure in RabbitMQ affects installations running the management plugin with OAuth 2 configured
Pivotal RabbitMQ, versions 3.7.x prior to 3.7.21 and 3.8.x prior to 3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform, 1.16.x ver
Denial of service in the RabbitMQ Java client library (com.rabbitmq:amqp-client ≤ 5.30.0) allows a malicious or compromi
An issue was discovered in Pivotal RabbitMQ 3.x before 3.5.8 and 3.6.x before 3.6.6 and RabbitMQ for PCF 1.5.x before 1.
Parsing desynchronization in the RabbitMQ amqp091-go AMQP 0.9.1 client library before 1.13.0 lets a malicious or comprom
RabbitMQ's amqp091-go Go client library, in all versions before 1.13.0, builds TLS configuration from amqps:// URIs with
RabbitMQ is a multi-protocol messaging broker. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploita
RabbitMQ brokers that use the OAuth2 plugin can silently fall back to disabled TLS certificate verification when no CA b
Silent AMQP 0.9.1 metadata corruption in the RabbitMQ amqp091-go Go client library prior to 1.13.0 lets an application t
TLS client-authentication bypass in the RabbitMQ trust-store plugin lets a remote unauthenticated attacker whose forged
TLS certificate validation is completely bypassed in the RabbitMQ Java client library (`com.rabbitmq:amqp-client`) prior
Denial of service in the official RabbitMQ Go client library amqp091-go (versions prior to 1.13.0): a malicious, comprom
Same weakness CWE-863 – Incorrect Authorization
View allSame technique Authentication Bypass
View allVendor StatusVendor
SUSE
Severity: Moderate| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.2 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | Not-Affected |
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