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CVE-2016-9877

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9877 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Pivotal RabbitMQ versions prior to 3.5.8 and 3.6.6, and RabbitMQ for PCF versions prior to 1.5.20, 1.6.12, and 1.7.7. Specifically, it allows an attacker to authenticate to an MQTT connection with a valid username but a missing password, granting unauthorized access. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, its critical severity warrants immediate patching.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (9)

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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: rabbitmq-server
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: rabbitmq-server
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)Fixed in: rabbitmq-server
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)Fixed in: rabbitmq-server
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Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)Fixed in: rabbitmq-server
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Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata)Fixed in: rabbitmq-server
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Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)Fixed in: rabbitmq-server
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Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: rabbitmq-server
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Product: Red Hat Storage Console 2Fixed in: rabbitmq-server

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-9877Moderate

rabbitmq: MQTT connection authentication succeeds with empty password

Dec 20, 2016

References

pivotal.io / security/cve-2016-9877
MitigationVendor Advisory
support.hpe.com / hpsc/doc/public/display
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3761
securityfocus.com / bid/95065