High severity · published Sep 16, 2026
CVE-2026-75516
RabbitMQ Java client: Frame-level OOM: Math.min(maxInboundMessageBodySize, 0) defeats frame size enforcement
8.7
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. Prior to 5.34.0, AMQConnection.start() applies Math.min(maxInboundMessageBodySize, frameMax) after Connection.Tune negotiation even though AMQP defines frameMax value zero as unlimited and ConnectionFactory.DEFAULT_FRAME_MAX is zero. When the client default and server-negotiated value are both zero, the result is passed to Utils.framePayloadLimit(int), which interprets zero as Integer.MAX_VALUE and disables the configured maxInboundMessageBodySize cap. A malicious AMQP server, or a man-in-the-middle attacker able to modify Connection.Tune and inject frames into the connection, can then send an oversized frame of any frame type, causing Frame.readFrom() to allocate a large byte array before content-level validation and potentially terminate the client process through memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 5.34.0.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
rabbitmq-java-client · rabbitmq
< 5.34.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75516
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-75516
github.com
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/commit/6d7c2bfe89796ca34d3531098fb59dd657fea39e
github.com
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/commit/e7f10bf99aee103dd9f64b3e52a725fc9f9d3763
github.com
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/pull/2015
github.com
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/pull/2016
github.com
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/releases/tag/v5.34.0
github.com
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/security/advisories/GHSA-jh4v-gfqj-7rhx
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