Upstream information

CVE-2026-44838 at MITRE

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.2.0 to before 4.2.4, RabbitMQ's MQTT plugin allows for topic-level authorization using regular expressions with variable substitution. Administrators can create patterns such as ^{client_id}-sensors$ to restrict user access to topics that include their client ID. However, the client_id is provided by the user in the MQTT CONNECT packet and is inserted into the regex pattern without escaping special regex characters. This flaw enables an authenticated MQTT user to inject regex operators to bypass authorization. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.4 and 4.3.0.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail SUSE
Base Score 8.1
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
CVSS v4 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub) SUSE
Base Score 5.3 7.6
Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Attack Requirements Present Present
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction None None
Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low High
Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low High
Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low None
Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact High None
Subsequent System Integrity Impact High None
Subsequent System Availability Impact None None
CVSSv4 Version 4.0 4.0
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1266464 [NEW]

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 rabbitmq-server313 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP7 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP7 rabbitmq-server313 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 rabbitmq-server313 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 rabbitmq-server313 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 rabbitmq-server Not affected
openSUSE Leap 16.0 rabbitmq-server Not affected
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP4 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP5 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP6 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP6 rabbitmq-server313 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 rabbitmq-server313 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS rabbitmq-server313 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 rabbitmq-server313 Not affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 rabbitmq-server313 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 rabbitmq-server Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 rabbitmq-server Not affected
openSUSE Leap 15.3 rabbitmq-server Not affected
openSUSE Leap 15.4 rabbitmq-server Not affected
openSUSE Leap 15.5 rabbitmq-server Not affected
openSUSE Leap 15.6 rabbitmq-server Not affected
openSUSE Leap 15.6 rabbitmq-server313 Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 27 18:03:58 2026
CVE page last modified: Wed May 27 21:29:08 2026