CVE-2026-66078
Received Received - Intake

Protected Tag Bypass in RabbitMQ via Bulk-Delete

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-66078, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-09-25

Last updated on: 2026-09-25

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 3.13.0 until 3.13.15 and 4.0.20 and 4.1.11 and 4.2.6, protected tag bypass via bulk-delete. dELETE /api/users/:name refuses to delete users tagged protected (rabbitmgmtwmuser:deleteresource/2 checks isprotecteduser). POST /api/users/bulk-delete iterates the supplied username list and calls rabbitauthbackendinternal:deleteuser/2 directly , that function has no protected-tag check , so the guard is silently An administrator can delete protected-tagged service accounts via the bulk endpoint, bypassing a safeguard the test suite confirms is rabbitmqmanagement enabled Attacker has the administrator tag A protected-tagged user. This issue is fixed in versions 3.13.15 and 4.0.20 and 4.1.11 and 4.2.6.

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Published
2026-09-25
Last Modified
2026-09-25
Generated
2026-09-25
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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Affected Vendors & Products

Showing 4 associated CPEs
Vendor Product Version / Range
rabbitmq rabbitmq From 3.13.0 (inc) to 3.13.15 (inc)
rabbitmq rabbitmq 4.0.20
rabbitmq rabbitmq 4.1.11
rabbitmq rabbitmq 4.2.6

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CWE-862 The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

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