Bug 2540981 - CVE-2026-67233 rabbitmq-server: RabbitMQ: Privilege escalation allows monitoring users to delete shovels [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-67233 rabbitmq-server: RabbitMQ: Privilege escalation allows monitor...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rabbitmq-server
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Peter Lemenkov
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["94737aa1-afe1-447a-9a25-5...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-67233
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Reported: 2026-09-25 07:50 UTC by Matteo Signorini
Modified: 2026-10-09 15:45 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: rabbitmq-server-4.3.6-1.fc46 rabbitmq-server-4.3.6-1.fc45 rabbitmq-server-4.2.9-2.fc44
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Last Closed: 2026-10-09 15:44:31 UTC
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Description Matteo Signorini 2026-09-25 07:50:45 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.1, The shovel management resource's is_authorized/2 delegates to rabbit_mgmt_util:is_authorized_monitor/2, which accepts the monitoring tag. But allowed_methods includes DELETE, and delete_resource/2 deletes / restarts shovel runtime parameters with no additional role check. A monitoring user , intended to have read-only visibility , can therefore delete or restart any shovel in any vhost they can see. A read-only monitoring user can delete or restart any dynamic shovel , a state-changing operation that the equivalent /api/parameters endpoint correctly restricts to policymaker. Preconditions include rabbitmq_shovel + rabbitmq_shovel_management plugins enabled Attacker has credentials with the monitoring tag. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.1.

Comment 1 Peter Lemenkov 2026-10-09 13:24:40 UTC
This issue is already fixed upstream in RabbitMQ 4.3.6, which is the version currently built for Fedora rawhide (rabbitmq-server-4.3.6-1.fc46) and Fedora 45 (rabbitmq-server-4.3.6-1.fc45).

Fedora 44 (currently 4.2.9) and Fedora 43 (currently 4.0.9) still need attention; backports/rebases for the still-supported stable branches are being worked on. Leaving this report open to track that remaining work.

Comment 2 Peter Lemenkov 2026-10-09 15:44:31 UTC
This issue is already addressed in the rabbitmq-server builds currently shipped in all maintained Fedora branches:

  * Fedora rawhide: rabbitmq-server-4.3.6-1.fc46
  * Fedora 45:      rabbitmq-server-4.3.6-1.fc45
  * Fedora 44:      rabbitmq-server-4.2.9-2.fc44

No new build is required for these branches, so closing as CURRENTRELEASE.

Fedora 43 (rabbitmq-server-4.0.9) will NOT be updated for this CVE batch: the upstream 4.0.x line ended at 4.0.9 (later 4.0.x fixes are commercial-only, with no public OSS release) and Fedora 43 reaches end of life on 2026-12-09, so a backport to F43 is not worthwhile.


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