CVE-2016-9877

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-12-20
CWE:
CWE-287
Bugzilla:
1409748: CVE-2016-9877 rabbitmq: MQTT connection authentication succeeds with empty password

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

An issue was discovered in Pivotal RabbitMQ 3.x before 3.5.8 and 3.6.x before 3.6.6 and RabbitMQ for PCF 1.5.x before 1.5.20, 1.6.x before 1.6.12, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7. MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) connection authentication with a username/password pair succeeds if an existing username is provided but the password is omitted from the connection request. Connections that use TLS with a client-provided certificate are not affected.

Find out more about CVE-2016-9877 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 5.9
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Storage Console 2 rabbitmq-server Will not fix
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 rabbitmq-server Will not fix
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) rabbitmq-server Will not fix
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) rabbitmq-server Will not fix
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 rabbitmq-server Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 rabbitmq-server Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 rabbitmq-server Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) rabbitmq-server Will not fix

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