Connection shutdown via malformed body frame
Published Aug 18, 2026 · Updated Aug 18, 2026
Denial of service in RabbitMQ Java Client before 5.31.0 allows remote authenticated users to close a client connection via malformed AMQP frames. In CommandAssembler.consumeBodyFrame, the client subtracts a peer-controlled FRAME_BODY payload length from remainingBodyBytes before checking that the fragment fits the header-declared body size, which drives the counter negative and throws a raw UnsupportedOperationException instead of MalformedFrameException. Exploitation requires the client to connect to a malicious or compromised broker on a nonzero channel; the result is connection teardown and service interrupt for work using that connection, with no reported code execution, memory corruption, or data disclosure.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in RabbitMQ Java Client before 5.31.0 allows remote authenticated users to close a client connection via malformed AMQP frames. In CommandAssembler.consumeBodyFrame, the client subtracts a peer-controlled FRAME_BODY payload length from remainingBodyBytes before checking that the fragment fits the header-declared body size, which drives the counter negative and throws a raw UnsupportedOperationException instead of MalformedFrameException. Exploitation requires the client to connect to a malicious or compromised broker on a nonzero channel; the result is connection teardown and service interrupt for work using that connection, with no reported code execution, memory corruption, or data disclosure.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-63335
- Published
- Aug 18, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 18, 2026
- Vendor
- RabbitMQ
- Product
- RabbitMQ Java Client
- Classifications
- CWE-20, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 18, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 18, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 5.31.0
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