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.
{
"severity": "HIGH",
"nvd_published_at": "2019-11-23T00:15:00Z",
"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-134",
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed_at": "2022-07-01T11:48:49Z"
}