CVE-2021-22117

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

RabbitMQ installers on Windows prior to version 3.8.16 do not harden plugin directory permissions, potentially allowing attackers with sufficient local filesystem permissions to add arbitrary plugins.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-22117

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`0`
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-22117

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.