Severity

Low

Vendor

Pivotal

Description

Pivotal RabbitMQ, 3.7 versions prior to v3.7.20 and 3.8 version prior to v3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for PCF, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain two endpoints, federation and shovel, which do not properly sanitize user input. A remote authenticated malicious user with administrative access could craft a cross site scripting attack via the vhost or node name fields that could grant access to virtual hosts and policy management information.

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

• RabbitMQ
  • 3.8 versions prior to v3.8.1
  • 3.7 versions prior to v3.7.20
• RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform
  • 1.17 versions prior to 1.17.4
  • 1.16 versions prior to 1.16.7

Mitigation

• RabbitMQ
  • v3.8.1
  • v3.7.20
• RabbitMQ for Pivotal Platform
  • 1.17.4
  • 1.16.7

Credit

This issue was responsibly reported by Markus Alvila.

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11291

History

2019-11-22: Initial vulnerability report published.