CVE-2021-22116

HIGH

RabbitMQ < 3.8.16 - Denial of Service via AMQP 1.0 Client Connection Endpoint

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

RabbitMQ all versions prior to 3.8.16 are prone to a denial of service vulnerability due to improper input validation in AMQP 1.0 client connection endpoint. A malicious user can exploit the vulnerability by sending malicious AMQP messages to the target RabbitMQ instance having the AMQP 1.0 plugin enabled.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22116
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00011.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0103
EPSS Percentile 77.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
vmware/rabbitmq < 3.8.16
Published Jun 08, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026