# CVE-2023-30450: rpk in Redpanda before 23.1.2 mishandles the redpanda.rpc\_server\_tls field, leading to (for example) situations in which there is a data typ

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-04-08 · Updated: 2025-02-12

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

rpk in Redpanda before 23.1.2 mishandles the redpanda.rpc_server_tls field, leading to (for example) situations in which there is a data type mismatch that cannot be automatically fixed by rpk, and instead a user must reconfigure (while a cluster is turned off) in order to have TLS on broker RPC ports. NOTE: the fix was also backported to the 22.2 and 22.3 branches.

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## References

- https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/7719
- https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/commit/58795aa07e88e0a63cebf4e1d9fcc717ceef0557
- https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/commit/cf82b99457e2434d3674e424ab560fe201e6c365
- https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/commit/a839056381ea7cd71e68495854e388daf7a08ba7
- https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/compare/v23.1.1...v23.1.2

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