CVE-2022-33683

CVE-2022-33683: Disabled Certificate Validation makes Broker, Proxy Admin Clients vulnerable to MITM attack

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Pulsar
Weakness CWE-295
Published September 23, 2022
Last update May 22, 2025

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

Apache Pulsar Brokers and Proxies create an internal Pulsar Admin Client that does not verify peer TLS certificates, even when tlsAllowInsecureConnection is disabled via configuration. The Pulsar Admin Client's intra-cluster and geo-replication HTTPS connections are vulnerable to man in the middle attacks, which could leak authentication data, configuration data, and any other data sent by these clients. 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. This issue affects Apache Pulsar Broker and 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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 23, 2022 CVE published
May 22, 2025 Record updated