Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ 4.2 End of Life Date
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ 4.2 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data reconciled from official vendor documentation and endoflife.date at every build; the source of each date is on the product page.
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ 4.2 was released on October 27, 2025 and has no published end-of-life date yet.
What does Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ 4.2 end of life mean?
When Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ 4.2 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Running Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ 4.2 past its EOL date creates a permanently growing attack surface that standard security tooling will not surface.
Migrate to Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ 4.2 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.