CVE-2019-11291: Broadcom Rabbitmq Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Pivotal RabbitMQ, 3.7 versions prior to v3.7.20 and 3.8 version prior to v3.8.1, and RabbitMQ for PCF, 1.16.x versions prior to 1.16.7 and 1.17.x versions prior to 1.17.4, contain two endpoints, federation and shovel, which do not properly sanitize user input. A remote authenticated malicious user with administrative access could craft a cross site scripting attack via the vhost or node name fields that could grant access to virtual hosts and policy management information.

Affected products

• Broadcom Rabbitmq Server: from 3.7.0, before 3.7.20 (fixed in 3.7.20); version 3.8.0 only
• Red Hat Openstack: version 15 only
• VMware Rabbitmq: from 1.16.0, before 1.16.7 (fixed in 1.16.7); from 1.17.0, before 1.17.4 (fixed in 1.17.4)

Published 2019-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.