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SCA: security update for org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker (GHSA-j2r7-3rvw-g7gx)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416071

Description

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

 - Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache Pulsar Broker's Rest Producer
 allows authenticated user with a custom HTTP header to produce a message to any topic using the broker's
 admin role. This issue affects Apache Pulsar Brokers: from 2.9.0 through 2.9.5, from 2.10.0 before 2.10.4,
 2.11.0. The vulnerability is exploitable when an attacker can connect directly to the Pulsar Broker. If an
 attacker is connecting through the Pulsar Proxy, there is no known way to exploit this authorization
 vulnerability. There are two known risks for affected users. First, an attacker could produce garbage
 messages to any topic in the cluster. Second, an attacker could produce messages to the topic level
 policies topic for other tenants and influence topic settings that could lead to exfiltration and/or
 deletion of messages for other tenants. 2.8 Pulsar Broker users and earlier are unaffected. 2.9 Pulsar
 Broker users should upgrade to one of the patched versions. 2.10 Pulsar Broker users should upgrade to at
 least 2.10.4. 2.11 Pulsar Broker users should upgrade to at least 2.11.1. 3.0 Pulsar Broker users are
 unaffected. (CVE-2023-30428)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j2r7-3rvw-g7gx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416071

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-30428

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-30428

cwe: CWE-863