CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-66074

MediumCVSS 6.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.33%

23th percentile - higher than 23% of all known CVEs

Summary

In RabbitMQ, match_value/3 passes the user-supplied ?name= regular expression to re:run with no match_limit option and executes it once per resource in the result set. With a large result set, a single request can consume many minutes of CPU, and parallel requests saturate the schedulers. The path is reachable through normal API use with the use_regex=true option.

Risk Assessment

A user with the management tag can trigger a denial-of-service condition, exhausting CPU and making the broker unavailable. In production environments this can disrupt message processing.

Recommendation

Upgrade RabbitMQ to versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, or 4.3.0. Restrict management privileges to trusted accounts and monitor unusual use of the use_regex parameter.

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Original NVD description (English source)

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0, match_value/3 passes the user-supplied ?name= regular expression to re:run with no match_limit option, and executes it once per resource in the result set. OTP's default 10M match_limit caps each call at roughly 100-200ms, but the regex runs once per resource in the result set. With a large set, for example 5000 queues at 150ms each, a single request consumes 12 or more minutes of CPU. Parallel requests saturate the schedulers. The use_regex=true option is a supported feature on list endpoints, so this path is reachable through normal API use. Preconditions include Any user with the management tag can exploit this.. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS