Medium 6.9Published Sep 23, 2026

CVE-2026-67229RabbitMQ: Admin-only atom exhaustion: atomize_keys on vhost metadata

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 09:40 UTC)

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RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0, add_vhost/2 calls rabbit_data_coercion:atomize_keys/1 (the unsafe variant using binary_to_atom) on the vhost metadata map. The 20 MB management body limit fits ~1M+ short keys. Admin-only. An administrator importing a crafted definitions file can crash the node in a single request: a vhosts entry with ~1M unique metadata keys exhausts the atom table during import. Preconditions include administrator tag. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0.

CVSS: 6.9 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-400
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Undergoing Analysis
Record last updated: Sep 24, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

rabbitmq rabbitmq-server rabbitmq:server (from the name)	from 3.13.0, < 3.13.15; from 4.0.0, < 4.0.20; from 4.1.0, < 4.1.11; from 4.2.0, < 4.2.6	CNA record

References

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-ggrw-qm45-hwpvx-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.6x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.0x-refsource-misc

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