Medium 5.9Published Sep 25, 2026

CVE-2026-67222RabbitMQ: list_to_atom on auth_mechanism URI tokens in amqp_client

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 8:50 PM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 3.13.0 until 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6, mechanisms/1 applied list_to_atom/1 to every colon-delimited token in an attacker-controlled auth_mechanism value, permanently consuming Erlang VM atoms and allowing the node to be crashed with a large request. Exploitation requires the Shovel or Federation plugin to be in use, and setting auth_mechanism requires the policymaker tag. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, and 4.2.6.

CVSS: 5.9 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-400
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Sep 28, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

rabbitmq rabbitmq-server rabbitmq:server (from the name)	from 3.13.0, < 3.13.15; from 4.0.0, < 4.0.20; from 4.1.0, < 4.1.11; from 4.2.0, < 4.2.6	CNA record
broadcom rabbitmq_server broadcom:rabbitmq_server	from 3.13.0 before 3.13.15; from 4.0.0 before 4.0.20; from 4.1.0 before 4.1.11; from 4.2.0 before 4.2.6	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-85jr-6rr2-j73r	x-refsource-confirm, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.6	x-refsource-misc, release-notes

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