CyberRota Analysis
This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2016-9877
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
1.38%
Original NVD Description
An issue was discovered in Pivotal RabbitMQ 3.x before 3.5.8 and 3.6.x before 3.6.6 and RabbitMQ for PCF 1.5.x before 1.5.20, 1.6.x before 1.6.12, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7. MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) connection authentication with a username/password pair succeeds if an existing username is provided but the password is omitted from the connection request. Connections that use TLS with a client-provided certificate are not affected.