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Ubuntu: USN-3374-1 (CVE-2016-9877): RabbitMQ vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3374-1 (CVE-2016-9877): RabbitMQ vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/31/2017
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in Pivotal RabbitMQ 3.x before 3.5.8 and 3.6.x before 3.6.6 and RabbitMQ for PCF 1.5.x before 1.5.20, 1.6.x before 1.6.12, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7. MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) connection authentication with a username/password pair succeeds if an existing username is provided but the password is omitted from the connection request. Connections that use TLS with a client-provided certificate are not affected.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-rabbitmq-server

References

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