CVE-2022-33682CWE-295

Disabled Hostname Verification makes Brokers, Proxies vulnerable to MITM attack

Medium · published September 23, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

TLS hostname verification cannot be enabled in the Pulsar Broker's Java Client, the Pulsar Broker's Java Admin Client, the Pulsar WebSocket Proxy's Java Client, and the Pulsar Proxy's Admin Client leaving intra-cluster connections and geo-replication connections vulnerable to man in the middle attacks, which could leak credentials, configuration data, message data, and any other data sent by these clients. The vulnerability is for both the pulsar+ssl protocol and HTTPS. 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 by providing the client with a cryptographically valid certificate for an unrelated host. This issue affects Apache Pulsar Broker, Proxy, and WebSocket Proxy 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; 2.6.4 and earlier.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00717 · 53.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation
Published
2022-09-23T09:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 SEP 09:25Z
    Disabled Hostname Verification makes Brokers, Proxies vulnerable to MITM attack
    cvelistv5