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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMHAZELCAST-3183870
  • published27 Dec 2022
  • disclosed27 Dec 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-36437  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

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

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