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CVE-2024-23944GHSA-R978-9M6M-6GM6BIT-ZOOKEEPER-2024-23944

Apache ZooKeeper: Information disclosure in persistent watcher handling

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Critical (apache)
Fix
Fixed in 3.8.4, 3.9.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Information disclosure in persistent watchers handling in Apache ZooKeeper due to missing ACL check. It allows an attacker to monitor child znodes by attaching a persistent watcher (addWatch command) to a parent which the attacker has already access to. ZooKeeper server doesn't do ACL check when the persistent watcher is triggered and as a consequence, the full path of znodes that a watch event gets triggered upon is exposed to the owner of the watcher. It's important to note that only the path is exposed by this vulnerability, not the data of znode, but since znode path can contain sensitive information like user name or login ID, this issue is potentially critical. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.9.2, 3.8.4 which fixes the issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper

    From 3.9.0 · through 3.9.1; From 3.8.0 · through 3.8.3; From 3.6.0 · through 3.7.2

  • org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeperMaven

    From 3.8.0 · fixed in 3.8.4

  • org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeperMaven

    From 3.9.0 · fixed in 3.9.2

  • org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeperMaven

    From 3.6.0 · through 3.7.2

References 1

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