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SCA: security update for org.apache.pulsar:pulsar (GHSA-3whx-qrj5-hh2h)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409737

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In Apache Pulsar it is possible to access data from BookKeeper that does not belong to the topics
 accessible by the authenticated user. The Admin API get-message-by-id requires the user to input a topic
 and a ledger id. The ledger id is a pointer to the data, and it is supposed to be a valid it for the
 topic. Authorisation controls are performed against the topic name and there is not proper validation the
 that ledger id is valid in the context of such ledger. So it may happen that the user is able to read from
 a ledger that contains data owned by another tenant. This issue affects Apache Pulsar Apache Pulsar
 version 2.8.0 and prior versions; Apache Pulsar version 2.7.3 and prior versions; Apache Pulsar version
 2.6.4 and prior versions. (CVE-2021-41571)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3whx-qrj5-hh2h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409737

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41571

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41571