Improper Authentication Affecting com.hazelcast:hazelcast package, versions [,3.12.13) [4.0,4.1.10) [4.2,4.2.6) [5.0,5.0.4) [5.1,5.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMHAZELCAST-3183870
  • published 27 Dec 2022
  • disclosed 27 Dec 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade com.hazelcast:hazelcast to version 3.12.13, 4.1.10, 4.2.6, 5.0.4, 5.1.3 or higher.

Overview

com.hazelcast:hazelcast is a clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication in the TcpServerConnection.equals() function used for connection caching, which allows unauthenticated attackers to use another user's authenticated connection to read and modify data in the cluster.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

9.1 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

9.1 critical