CVE-2018-1279

Publication date 10 December 2018

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Pivotal RabbitMQ for PCF, all versions, uses a deterministically generated cookie that is shared between all machines when configured in a multi-tenant cluster. A remote attacker who can gain information about the network topology can guess this cookie and, if they have access to the right ports on any server in the MQ cluster can use this cookie to gain full control over the entire cluster.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
rabbitmq-server	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

mdeslaur

Debian fixed this in 3.9.8-5 by adding a note to README.Debian explaining how to secure a RabbitMQ cluster

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H