Authenticated CPU exhaustion via unbounded LIKE matching
Published Sep 25, 2026 · Updated Sep 25, 2026
Denial of service in RabbitMQ Server's JMS Topic Exchange plugin allows remote authenticated users to consume broker CPU via crafted selectors. The LIKE evaluator converts client-controlled percent and underscore wildcards into overlapping PCRE fragments, then calls re:run/3 without match or recursion limits. Exploitation requires the optional plugin plus permission to bind and publish to an x-jms-topic exchange; repeated routing delays publisher confirms and competes with unrelated broker work.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in RabbitMQ Server's JMS Topic Exchange plugin allows remote authenticated users to consume broker CPU via crafted selectors. The LIKE evaluator converts client-controlled percent and underscore wildcards into overlapping PCRE fragments, then calls re:run/3 without match or recursion limits. Exploitation requires the optional plugin plus permission to bind and publish to an x-jms-topic exchange; repeated routing delays publisher confirms and competes with unrelated broker work.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-67413
- Published
- Sep 25, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 25, 2026
- Vendor
- RabbitMQ
- Product
- RabbitMQ Server
- Classifications
- CWE-1333, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 25, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 25, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.23
- Affected versionversion=>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.14
- Affected versionversion=>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.9
- Affected versionversion=>= 4.3.0, < 4.3.3
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- RabbitMQ JMS selector timing reproducerproof of concept · demonstrated
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