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CVE-2026-67226

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Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7, Admin-only atom exhaustion: PUT /api/users tags list. settags/2 maps rabbitdatacoercion:toatom/1 over the user's tags list. The 20 MB management body limit fits ~3-4M short tag strings. An administrator can crash the node in a single request by creating a user (or importing definitions) with ~1M unique tag administrator. This issue is fixed in versions 4.0.22 and 4.1.14 and 4.2.7.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.9 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-09-25 17:17:11
Last modified
2026-10-20 13:36:07.600000
View original CVE JSON
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  "published": "2026-09-25T17:17:11.000",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-20T13:36:07.600",
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