Bug 1174872 (CVE-2014-9494) - CVE-2014-9494 rabbitmq-server: insufficient 'X-Forwarded-For' header validation
Summary: CVE-2014-9494 rabbitmq-server: insufficient 'X-Forwarded-For' header validation
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-9494
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1174874 1174875 1174876
Blocks: 1174877
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Reported: 2014-12-16 16:17 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-10-20 10:49 UTC (History)
21 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RabbitMQ 3.4.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2021-10-20 10:49:23 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2014-12-16 16:17:25 UTC
In RabbitMQ, the 'loopback_users' configuration directive allows to specify a list of users that are only permitted to connect to the broker via localhost. It was found that the RabbitMQ's management plug-in did not sufficiently validate the 'X-Forwarded-For' header when determining the remote address. A remote attacker able to send a specially crafted 'X-Forwarded-For' header to RabbitMQ could use this flaw to connect to the broker as if they were a localhost user. Note that the attacker must know valid user credentials in order to connect to the broker.

Upstream patches:

http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-management/rev/c3c41177a11a
http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-management/rev/35e916df027d

References:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rabbitmq-users/DMkypbSvIyM
http://www.rabbitmq.com/release-notes/README-3.4.0.txt

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2014-12-16 16:18:10 UTC
Created rabbitmq-server tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1174874]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1174875]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1174876]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-01-06 02:09:11 UTC
rabbitmq-server-3.3.5-4.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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