CVE-2026-106123
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.002 · 15 %ileDEUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-26
The RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. Prior to 5.35.0, ConnectionFactoryConfigurator.load() includes the raw uri value in wrapped exceptions when AMQP URI parsing fails. Because the URI may contain a plaintext username and password, startup logs, application performance monitoring systems, CI logs, and copied stack traces can disclose broker credentials to users who should not have access to them. This issue is fixed in version 5.35.0.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 1.9–5.7
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affected products (4)
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advisories (2)
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- WID-SEC-W-2026-3773RabbitMQ Java Client: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-10-06csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen im RabbitMQ Java Client ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen und um Informationen offenzulegen.
- GHSA-h6w7-qmcm-q6xrRabbitMQ Java client: plaintext broker credentials leaked in exception message from ConnectionFactoryConfigurator.load()2026-10-07ghsa · osvUS
### Summary When property-file/Map-based `ConnectionFactory` setup fails while parsing the `uri` key, the library wraps the underlying exception with the raw connection string — including the plaintext username and password — baked verbatim into the new exception's message. ### Details `ConnectionFactoryConfigurator.load(ConnectionFactory, Map<String,String>, String)` (`src/main/java/com/rabbitmq/client/ConnectionFactoryConfigurator.java`, lines 142-155): String uri = properties.get(prefix + "uri"); if (uri != null) { try { cf.setUri(uri); } catch (URISyntaxException e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Error while setting AMQP URI: " + uri, e); } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Error while setting AMQP URI: " + uri, e); } catch (KeyManagementException e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Error while setting AMQP URI: " + uri, e); } } `uri` is the full AMQP URI — `amqp(s)://username:password@host:port/vhost` — concatenated verbatim into the exception message on any of the three catch branches. No masking/redaction exists anywhere in this class or in `ConnectionFactory.setUri()`. This is the library's documented Spring-Boot/ops-config entry point (`ConnectionFactory.load(...)`, available since 4.4.0), not obscure internal code. RabbitMQ's own AMQP URI spec (rabbitmq.com/docs/uri-spec) explicitly warns the password "should avoid leaking... the full URI should not appear in exception messages or log records." A sibling method twenty lines away (`ConnectionFactory.setUri(URI)`) already avoids this exact mistake for a different malformed-URI case — this path wasn't caught by that same care. Note: `KeyManagementException` is declared in the throws clause but not actually reachable via the current `setUri(String)` → `setUri(URI)` call chain — the two real, reachable leak surfaces are the `URISyntaxException` branch (trivial, deterministic, scheme-independent) and the `NoSuchAlgorithmException` branch (real but narrower — `amqps://` only, requires a restricted/FIPS-style default TLS provider). ### PoC Map<String, String> props = new HashMap<>(); props.put("uri", "amqp://svc-account:P@ssW0rd With Space!@broker.internal:5672/prod"); ConnectionFactory cf = new ConnectionFactory(); ConnectionFactoryConfigurator.load(cf, props, ""); Throws: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error while setting AMQP URI: amqp://svc-account:P@ssW0rd With Space!@broker.internal:5672/prod A password containing a space is entirely ordinary under common corporate password policies, and `java.net.URI` rejects such input outright — this isn't a contrived edge case. ### Impact Default Spring Boot startup-failure logging, an APM/error tracker, a CI job log, or an engineer pasting a stack trace into an internal or public ticket now holds the plaintext broker password, in a system typically far less access-controlled than wherever the credential is normally stored. Note the underlying `URISyntaxException` also carries the same string in its own message, chained as the cause of RabbitMQ's `IllegalArgumentException` — so removing RabbitMQ's own `+ uri` concatenation alone would not fully close this; the raw secret-bearing string also shouldn't be handed to `new URI()` for error-reporting purposes at all. Suggested fix: don't include the raw `uri` string in the wrapped exception's message — redact the userinfo component (or omit the URI entirely) before including it in any exception text.
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- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/commit/daca1875cdb8b8c0acce78f71103b21a05478446Patch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/pull/2052Issue TrackingPatch
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/releases/tag/v5.35.0Release Notes
- https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/security/advisories/GHSA-h6w7-qmcm-q6xrExploitVendor Advisory
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