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GHSA-7mg2-6c6v-342r

GitHub Security Advisory

Apache Pulsar: Improper Authorization For Namespace and Topic Management Endpoints

✓ GitHub Reviewed MODERATE Has CVE

Advisory Details

This vulnerability allows authenticated users with produce or consume permissions to perform unauthorized operations on partitioned topics, such as unloading topics and triggering compaction. These management operations should be restricted to users with the tenant admin role or superuser role. An authenticated user with produce permission can create subscriptions and update subscription properties on partitioned topics, even though this should be limited to users with consume permissions. This impact analysis assumes that Pulsar has been configured with the default authorization provider. For custom authorization providers, the impact could be slightly different. Additionally, the vulnerability allows an authenticated user to read, create, modify, and delete namespace properties in any namespace in any tenant. In Pulsar, namespace properties are reserved for user provided metadata about the namespace.

This issue affects Apache Pulsar versions from 2.7.1 to 2.10.6, from 2.11.0 to 2.11.4, from 3.0.0 to 3.0.3, from 3.1.0 to 3.1.3, and from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1.

3.0 Apache Pulsar users should upgrade to at least 3.0.4.
3.1 and 3.2 Apache Pulsar users should upgrade to at least 3.2.2.

Users operating versions prior to those listed above should upgrade to the aforementioned patched versions or newer versions.

Affected Packages

Maven org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker
Affected versions: 2.7.1 (last affected: 2.10.6)
Maven org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker
Affected versions: 2.11.0 (last affected: 2.11.4)
Maven org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker
Affected versions: 3.0.0 (fixed in 3.0.4)
Maven org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker
Affected versions: 3.1.0 (last affected: 3.1.3)
Maven org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker
Affected versions: 3.2.0 (fixed in 3.2.2)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-7mg2-6c6v-342r
Published
April 2, 2024 9:30 PM
Last Modified
May 2, 2024 6:48 PM
CVSS Score
5.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 14, 2025 6:31 AM

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