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7.5
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2019-11287
Pivotal RabbitMQ Format String DoS
Description

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 versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain a web management plugin that is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. The "X-Reason" HTTP Header can be leveraged to insert a malicious Erlang format string that will expand and consume the heap, resulting in the server crashing.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 23, 2019, 12:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

April 2, 2025, 2:13 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-11287 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Redhat openstack
1 Pivotal_software rabbitmq
1 Vmware rabbitmq
1 Broadcom rabbitmq_server
: Total Affected Vendor : 6 | Products : 6
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
A format string vulnerability exists in RabbitMQ that could lead to a denial of service.
  • Upgrade to a non-vulnerable version.
  • For RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform users, upgrade to version 1.16.7, 1.17.4, or later.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2019-11287 has a 2 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2019-11287.

URL Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287 Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287 Vendor Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-11287 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-11287 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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CVE-2019-11287: DoS via Heap Overflow in RabbitMQ Web Management Plugin

0-day authenticated cve cve-2019-11287 cves denial-of-service

Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-11287 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-11287 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Apr. 02, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:vmware:rabbitmq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.8.0 from (excluding) 3.8.1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.8.0 from (excluding) 3.8.1
  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078
    Added Reference https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/
    Added Reference https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Pivotal Software, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Pivotal Software, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference Pivotal Software, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/
    Removed Reference Pivotal Software, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 15, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Mar. 17, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:rabbitmq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.8.0 from (excluding) 3.8.1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:vmware:rabbitmq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.8.0 from (excluding) 3.8.1
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Aug. 04, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 19, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin No Types Assigned https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/ Third Party Advisory
    Removed CWE NIST CWE-400
    Added CWE NIST CWE-134
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 15, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-11287-DoS%20via%20Heap%20Overflow-RabbitMQ%20Web%20Management%20Plugin [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 13, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0078 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 07, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYTGR3D5FW2O25RXZOTIZMOD2HAUVBE4/ [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EEQ6O7PMNJKYFMQYHAB55L423GYK63SO/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 04, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287 No Types Assigned https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11287 Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-400
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:rabbitmq:*:*:*:*:*:pivotal_cloud_foundry:*:* versions from (including) 1.16.0 up to (excluding) 1.16.7 *cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:rabbitmq:*:*:*:*:*:pivotal_cloud_foundry:*:* versions from (including) 1.17.0 up to (excluding) 1.17.4 *cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:rabbitmq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.7.0 up to (excluding) 3.7.21 *cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:rabbitmq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.8.0 up to (excluding) 3.8.1
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 7.5
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 4.5
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 5
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.62 }} -0.06%

score

0.69119

percentile