Vmware: >> Spring Advanced Message Queuing Protocol >> 2.4.16 Security Vulnerabilities
Any application shipping logs to RabbitMQ over TLS via the Log4j2 appender, relying on the documented default, is exposed to man-in-the-middle interception of every log event.
Spring AMQP 4.1.0
Spring AMQP 4.0.0 - 4.0.4
Spring AMQP 3.2.0 - 3.2.12
Spring AMQP 2.4.18 and earlier
CVSS Score
6.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-08-27
A single hostile AMQP message can terminate the entire consumer JVM (System.exit(99)), not just the listener thread — full availability loss for every workload co-located in that process.
Spring AMQP 4.1.0
Spring AMQP 4.0.0 - 4.0.4
Spring AMQP 3.2.0 - 3.2.12
Spring AMQP 2.4.18 and earlier
CVSS Score
6.6
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-08-27
When the RabbitMQ management aliveness check fails, the configured admin password is embedded in cleartext in the thrown exception message.
Spring AMQP 4.1.0
Spring AMQP 4.0.0 - 4.0.4
Spring AMQP 3.2.0 - 3.2.12
Spring AMQP 2.4.18 and earlier
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2026-08-27
An attacker who can publish to a queue consumed by an application that has enabled message decompression can crash the consumer JVM with a single ~1 MB message.
Spring AMQP 4.1.0
Spring AMQP 4.0.0 - 4.0.4
Spring AMQP 3.2.0 - 3.2.12
Spring AMQP 2.4.18 and earlier
CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-08-27
Applications that configure their broker connection via RabbitConnectionFactoryBean.setUri("amqps://...") without also calling setUseSSL(true) get TLS encryption with no certificate validation and no hostname verification.
Affected versions:
Spring AMQP 4.0.0 through 4.0.3; 3.2.0 through 3.2.10; 3.1.0 through 3.1.15; 2.4.0 through 2.4.17.
CVSS Score
4.0
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-10