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CVE-2015-8786 json

The Management plugin in RabbitMQ before 3.6.1 allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to cause a denial of service (reso…

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-8658

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Management plugin in RabbitMQ before 3.6.1 allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via the (1) lengths_age or (2) lengths_incr parameter.

Patch / fix

  • rabbitmq-server Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.6.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8786

  • rabbitmq-server openstack 8 3.3.5-30.el7ost
  • rabbitmq-server openstack 7, openstack 6, openstack 5 3.3.5-31.el7ost
  • rabbitmq-server openstack 5 3.1.5-7.el6ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0226RHSA-2017:0530RHSA-2017:0531RHSA-2017:0533RHSA-2017:0532

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-8786 updated cvss 6.5

rabbitmq-server: DoS via lengths_age or lengths_incr parameter in the management plugin

  • Red Hat Storage Console 2 rabbitmq-server
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 rabbitmq-server 3.1.5-7.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0533
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 rabbitmq-server 3.3.5-31.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0532
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 rabbitmq-server 3.3.5-31.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0531
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 rabbitmq-server 3.3.5-31.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0530
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) rabbitmq-server 3.3.5-30.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0226
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) rabbitmq-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) rabbitmq-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) rabbitmq-server
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

3.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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