Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-67231

CVE-2026-67231

rabbitmq rabbitmq-server — RabbitMQ: Trust-store whitelist by Issuer+Serial only

Description · from the CVE record

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. Prior to versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0, The trust-store plugin installs a verify_fun that overrides {bad_cert, unknown_ca} / {bad_cert, selfsigned_peer} when the presented cert "matches" a whitelisted one. The match key is extract_issuer_id/1 → public_key:pkix_issuer_id/2 → {IssuerName, SerialNumber} , both fields are taken verbatim from the presented certificate body and contain no public-key, SKI, fingerprint or signature material. is_whitelisted/1 is a pure ets:member lookup; the stored full DER is used only for list/0 display and is never compared against the presented cert. cacerts is [], so the whitelisted cert is never used as a trust anchor for path validation either. TLS client-authentication bypass: an attacker who knows the issuer DN + serial of any whitelisted certificate can connect with a forged self-signed cert. Preconditions include rabbitmq_trust_store plugin enabled and used as the TLS verify_fun Attacker knows or can guess the {Issuer, Serial} of at least one whitelisted cert (non-secret; exposed via CLI/logs/any cert copy). This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15, 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 4.2.6, and 4.3.0.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
rabbitmq-server>= 3.13.0, < 3.13.15–CNA
rabbitmq-server>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.20–CNA
rabbitmq-server>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.11–CNA
rabbitmq-server>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.6–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
NVD9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

References

refgithub.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/security/advisories/GHSA-cw8c-4m83-9c6wrefgithub.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.2.6refgithub.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.3.0