Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-66078
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 27.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-66078
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.13.0
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.13.1
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.13.2
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.13.3
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.13.4
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.13.5
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.13.6
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.13.7
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:3.13.9
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:4.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:4.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:4.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:4.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:4.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:4.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:4.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:4.1.8