Medium severity · published Sep 25, 2026
CVE-2026-66073
RabbitMQ: Atom table exhaustion via management API node field
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 3.13.0 until 3.13.15 and 4.0.20 and 4.1.11 and 4.2.6, Atom table exhaustion via management API node field. pUT /api/queues/:vhost/:name (and the exchanges and bindings endpoints) accepts a node JSON field. The value goes through rabbitnodes:make → listtoatom with no cluster membership check first. Each unique value permanently leaks one atom. A March 2026 refactoring (ea61ce2563) introduced safe helpers in rabbitmgmtnodes.erl (parsenodename, safeatom, and requirenodename, using binarytoexistingatom) and fixed several callers (QQ replica ops, wmauthattempts, wmnodememoryets, getsortreverse, and rabbitfederationmgmt), but getnode/1 in rabbitmgmtutil.erl:880-885, the primary vector used by directrequest/6, was not Roughly 900K requests crash the VM via systemlimit, and all tenants lose Any user with the management tag and one vhost, the lowest privilege This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15 and 4.0.20 and 4.1.11 and 4.2.6.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
rabbitmq-server · rabbitmq
>= 3.13.0, < 3.13.15; >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.20; >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.11; >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.6 · source: vendor
RS
Rabbitmq Server · Broadcom
3.13.0 before 3.13.15; 4.0.0 before 4.0.20; 4.1.0 before 4.1.11; 4.2.0 before 4.2.6 · source: NVD
Affected product
RA
rabbitmq-server
rabbitmq
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