GHSA-pj33-75x5-32j4: RabbitMQ HTTP API's queue deletion endpoint does not verify that the user has a required permission

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3. CVE-2024-51988

RabbitMQ HTTP API’s queue deletion endpoint does not verify that the user has a required permission

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 6, 2024 in rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server • Updated Nov 6, 2024

Package

erlang rabbit_common (Erlang)

Affected versions

>= 3.12.7, < 3.12.11

Summary

Queue deletion via the HTTP API was not verifying the configure permission of the user.

Impact

Users who had all of the following:

1. Valid credentials
2. Some permissions for the target virtual host
3. HTTP API access

could delete queues it had no (deletion) permissions for.

Workarounds

Disable management plugin and use, for example, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.

OWASP Classification

OWASP Top10 A01:2021 – Broken Access Control

References

• GHSA-pj33-75x5-32j4
• https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/prometheus

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Nov 6, 2024