What is CVE-2024-51988?

CVE-2024-51988 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rabbitmq Rabbitmq-Server, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-11-06.

How severe is CVE-2024-51988?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Rabbitmq Rabbitmq-Server

CVE-2024-51988

RabbitMQ is a feature rich, multi-protocol messaging and streaming broker. In affected versions queue deletion via the HTTP API was not verifying the `configure` permission of the user. Users who had all of the following: 1. Valid credentials, 2. Some permissions for the target virtual host & 3. HTTP API access. could delete queues it had no (deletion) permissions for. This issue has been addressed in version 3.12.11 of the open source rabbitMQ release and in versions 1.5.2, 3.13.0, and 4.0.0 of the tanzu release. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable management plugin and use, for example, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Rabbitmq Rabbitmq-server — versions Open source RabbitMQ: >= 3.12.7, < 3.12.11, Tanzu RabbitMQ: >= 2.0.0, < 3.13.0, Tanzu RabbitMQ: < 1.5.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-51988?: CVE-2024-51988 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rabbitmq Rabbitmq-Server, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-11-06.
How severe is CVE-2024-51988?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.