CVE-2016-9877

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - security_alert@emc.com

Published

2016-12-29

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected products

• Rabbitmq Server (Broadcom)
• Rabbitmq (Pivotal Software)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3761
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95065
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9877
• https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03880en_us