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Severity: critical
Affected versions:
Description:
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in Apache ZooKeeper. If SASL Quorum Peer authentication is enabled in ZooKeeper (quorum.auth.enableSasl=true), the authorization is done by verifying that the instance part in SASL authentication ID is listed in zoo.cfg server list. The instance part in SASL auth ID is optional and if it's missing, like 'eve@EXAMPLE.COM', the authorization check will be skipped. As a result an arbitrary endpoint could join the cluster and begin propagating counterfeit changes to the leader, essentially giving it complete read-write access to the data tree. Quorum Peer authentication is not enabled by default.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.9.1, 3.8.3, 3.7.2, which fixes the issue.
Alternately ensure the ensemble election/quorum communication is protected by a firewall as this will mitigate the issue.
See the documentation for more details on correct cluster administration.
Credit:
Damien Diederen ddiederen@apache.org (reporter)
References:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44981
Severity: Critical
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: ZooKeeper prior to 3.4.14 ZooKeeper 3.5.0-alpha through 3.5.4-beta. The unsupported ZooKeeper 1.x through 3.3.x versions may be also affected.
Description: ZooKeeper’s getACL() command doesn’t check any permission when retrieves the ACLs of the requested node and returns all information contained in the ACL Id field as plaintext string. DigestAuthenticationProvider overloads the Id field with the hash value that is used for user authentication. As a consequence, if Digest Authentication is in use, the unsalted hash value will be disclosed by getACL() request for unauthenticated or unprivileged users.
Mitigation: Use an authentication method other than Digest (e.g. Kerberos) or upgrade to 3.4.14 or later (3.5.5 or later if on the 3.5 branch).
Credit: This issue was identified by Harrison Neal harrison@patchadvisor.com PatchAdvisor, Inc.
References: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1392
Severity: Critical
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: ZooKeeper prior to 3.4.10 ZooKeeper 3.5.0-alpha through 3.5.3-beta The unsupported ZooKeeper 1.x through 3.3.x versions may be also affected
Description: No authentication/authorization is enforced when a server attempts to join a quorum. As a result an arbitrary end point could join the cluster and begin propagating counterfeit changes to the leader.
Mitigation: Upgrade to 3.4.10 or later (3.5.4-beta or later if on the 3.5 branch) and enable Quorum Peer mutual authentication.
Alternately ensure the ensemble election/quorum communication is protected by a firewall as this will mitigate the issue.
See the documentation for more details on correct cluster administration.
Credit: This issue was identified by Földi Tamás and Eugene Koontz
References: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1045 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/Server-Server+mutual+authentication https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/current/zookeeperAdmin.html
Severity: moderate
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: ZooKeeper 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 ZooKeeper 3.5.0 to 3.5.2 The unsupported ZooKeeper 1.x through 3.3.x versions may be also affected
Note: The 3.5 branch is still beta at this time.
Description: Two four letter word commands “wchp/wchc” are CPU intensive and could cause spike of CPU utilization on ZooKeeper server if abused, which leads to the server unable to serve legitimate client requests. There is no known compromise which takes advantage of this vulnerability.
Mitigation: This affects ZooKeeper ensembles whose client port is publicly accessible, so it is recommended to protect ZooKeeper ensemble with firewall. Documentation has also been updated to clarify on this point. In addition, a patch (ZOOKEEPER-2693) is provided to disable "wchp/wchc” commands by default. - ZooKeeper 3.4.x users should upgrade to 3.4.10 or apply the patch. - ZooKeeper 3.5.x users should upgrade to 3.5.3 or apply the patch.
References [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2693
Severity: moderate
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: ZooKeeper 3.4.0 to 3.4.8 ZooKeeper 3.5.0 to 3.5.2 The unsupported ZooKeeper 1.x through 3.3.x versions may be also affected
Note: The 3.5 branch is still alpha at this time.
Description: The ZooKeeper C client shells "cli_st" and "cli_mt" have a buffer overflow vulnerability associated with parsing of the input command when using the "cmd:
Mitigation: It is important to use the fully featured/supported Java cli shell rather than the C cli shell independent of version.
ZooKeeper 3.4.x users should upgrade to 3.4.9 or apply this patch
ZooKeeper 3.5.x users should upgrade to 3.5.3 when released or apply this patch
The patch solves the problem reported here, but it does not make the client ready for production use. The community has no plan to make this client production ready at this time, and strongly recommends that users move to the Java cli and use the C cli for illustration purposes only.
Credit: This issue was discovered by Lyon Yang (@l0Op3r)
References: Apache ZooKeeper Security Page