CVE-2015-8786 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published 9 Dec 2016 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Authenticated users can cause a denial of service in RabbitMQ via resource consumption in the Management plugin.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2015-8786?

CVE-2015-8786 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 9 Dec 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8786?

It affects 2 products.

Linux distribution packages (5)

`rabbitmq-server` Red Hat:openstack:5::el6	All versions	`0:3.1.5-7.el6ost`
`rabbitmq-server` Red Hat:openstack:5::el7	All versions	`0:3.3.5-31.el7ost`
`rabbitmq-server` Red Hat:openstack:6::el7	All versions	`0:3.3.5-31.el7ost`
`rabbitmq-server` Red Hat:openstack:7::el7	All versions	`0:3.3.5-31.el7ost`
`rabbitmq-server` Red Hat:openstack:8::el7	All versions	`0:3.3.5-30.el7ost`

Products include Oracle Solaris, Pivotal Software Rabbitmq.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8786?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-8786 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8786 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Oracle Solaris vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8786, GHSA-c22c-f732-2pwg, RHSA-2017:0226, RHSA-2017:0530, RHSA-2017:0531, RHSA-2017:0532 and 2 more.