Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2023-33246

TLP:CLEAR

Apache RocketMQ Command Execution Vulnerability

Several components of Apache RocketMQ, including NameServer, Broker, and Controller, are exposed to the extranet and lack permission verification. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by using the update configuration function to execute commands as the system users that RocketMQ is running as or achieve the same effect by forging the RocketMQ protocol content.

Facts

  • Vendor: Apache
  • Product: RocketMQ
  • CVSS: 9.8
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 96.6 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 6 September 2023
  • First known exploitation: 6 September 2023
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 27 September 2023
  • Weakness: CWE-94
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 6 September 2023

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD