SB2016091804 - Information disclosure in Pivotal RabbitMQ 



SB2016091804 - Information disclosure in Pivotal RabbitMQ

Published: September 18, 2016 Updated: August 9, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2016091804
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Information disclosure

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0929)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The metrics-collection component in RabbitMQ for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) 1.6.x before 1.6.4 logs command lines of failed commands, which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the log data, as demonstrated by a syslog message that contains credentials from a command line.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.