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SCA: security update for pulsar-client (GHSA-5r3h-c3r7-9w4h)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 410992

Description

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

 - The Apache Pulsar C++ Client does not verify peer TLS certificates when making HTTPS calls for the
 OAuth2.0 Client Credential Flow, even when tlsAllowInsecureConnection is disabled via configuration. This
 vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a man in the middle attack and intercept and/or modify the GET
 request that is sent to the ClientCredentialFlow 'issuer url'. The intercepted credentials can be used to
 acquire authentication data from the OAuth2.0 server to then authenticate with an Apache Pulsar cluster.
 An attacker can only take advantage of this vulnerability by taking control of a machine 'between' the
 client and the server. The attacker must then actively manipulate traffic to perform the attack. The
 Apache Pulsar Python Client wraps the C++ client, so it is also vulnerable in the same way. This issue
 affects Apache Pulsar C++ Client and Python Client versions 2.7.0 to 2.7.4; 2.8.0 to 2.8.3; 2.9.0 to
 2.9.2; 2.10.0 to 2.10.1; 2.6.4 and earlier. Any users running affected versions of the C++ Client or the
 Python Client should rotate vulnerable OAuth2.0 credentials, including client_id and client_secret. 2.7
 C++ and Python Client users should upgrade to 2.7.5 and rotate vulnerable OAuth2.0 credentials. 2.8 C++
 and Python Client users should upgrade to 2.8.4 and rotate vulnerable OAuth2.0 credentials. 2.9 C++ and
 Python Client users should upgrade to 2.9.3 and rotate vulnerable OAuth2.0 credentials. 2.10 C++ and
 Python Client users should upgrade to 2.10.2 and rotate vulnerable OAuth2.0 credentials. 3.0 C++ users are
 unaffected and 3.0 Python Client users will be unaffected when it is released. Any users running the C++
 and Python Client for 2.6 or less should upgrade to one of the above patched versions. (CVE-2022-33684)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5r3h-c3r7-9w4h

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 410992

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-33684

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-33684

cwe: CWE-295