Medium severity · published Mar 15, 2024
CVE-2024-23944
Apache ZooKeeper: Information disclosure in persistent watcher handling
5.3
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 16% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AZ
Apache ZooKeeper · Apache Software Foundation
3.9.0 through 3.9.1; 3.8.0 through 3.8.3; 3.6.0 through 3.7.2 · source: vendor
ZO
Zookeeper · Apache
3.6.0 through 3.7.2; 3.8.0 before 3.8.4; 3.9.0 before 3.9.2 · source: NVD
Affected product
AZ
Apache ZooKeeper
Apache Software Foundation
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