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CVE-2017-5637GHSA-7CWJ-J333-X7F7

Two four letter word commands "wchp/wchc" are CPU intensive and could cause spike of CPU utilization on Apache ZooKeeper server if abused, w

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Fix
Fixed in 3.4.10, 3.5.3
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Summary

Two four letter word commands "wchp/wchc" are CPU intensive and could cause spike of CPU utilization on Apache ZooKeeper server if abused, which leads to the server unable to serve legitimate client requests. Apache ZooKeeper thru version 3.4.9 and 3.5.2 suffer from this issue, fixed in 3.4.10, 3.5.3, and later.

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-42294

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated
  4. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache ZooKeeper

    3.4.0 to 3.4.9, 3.5.0 to 3.5.2

  • org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeperMaven

    From 3.4.0 · fixed in 3.4.10

  • org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeperMaven

    From 3.5.0 · fixed in 3.5.3

References 13

lists.apache.org

securityfocus.com

access.redhat.com

debian.org

oracle.com

issues.apache.org

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