Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges Affecting org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper package, versions [3.9.0, 3.9.4)
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- published26 Sept 2025
- disclosed24 Sept 2025
- creditDamien Diederen
Introduced: 24 Sep 2025
NewCVE-2025-58457 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper to version 3.9.4 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges due to insufficient permission checks in the handleAuthorization function. A user can gain unauthorized access to sensitive operations by executing snapshot and restore commands without adequate permissions.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling the snapshot and restore commands via admin.snapshot.enabled and admin.restore.enabled, disabling the AdminServer interface entirely via admin.enableServer, or ensuring the root ACL does not provide open permissions.
Note: ZooKeeper ACLs are not recursive, so the workaround does not impact operations on child nodes besides notifications from recursive watches.