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CVE-2022-33683· NVD / CVE Program· CNA apache

Disabled Certificate Validation makes Broker, Proxy Admin Clients vulnerable to MITM attack

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 23/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.68% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 51.4% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • Fixed version: org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker (Maven) 2.10.1, 2.8.4, 2.9.3; org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxy (Maven) 2.10.1, 2.8.4, 2.9.3.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker (Maven) 2.10.1, 2.8.4, 2.9.3; org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxy (Maven) 2.10.1, 2.8.4, 2.9.3 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

MediumCVSS 5.9 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Sep 23, 2022
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.6% · 51th percentile

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Action score

23

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
23 / 40 · 5.9 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.6%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
apachepulsar

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • apache pulsarbefore 2.7.5
  • apache pulsar2.8.0 and later · before 2.8.4
  • apache pulsar2.9.0 and later · before 2.9.3
  • apache pulsar2.10.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (apache). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Pulsar

    • 2.10.0affected
    • 2.7 and later · up to and including 2.7.4affected
    • 2.8 and later · up to and including 2.8.3affected
    • 2.9 and later · up to and including 2.9.2affected
    • 2.6 and earlier and later · up to and including 2.6.4affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Mavenorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-brokerfrom 2.10.0 · before 2.10.12.10.1
Mavenorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-brokerfrom 2.8.0 · before 2.8.42.8.4
Mavenorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-brokerfrom 2.9.0 · before 2.9.32.9.3
Mavenorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-brokerbefore 2.7.52.7.5
Mavenorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxyfrom 2.10.0 · before 2.10.12.10.1
Mavenorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxyfrom 2.8.0 · before 2.8.42.8.4
Mavenorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxyfrom 2.9.0 · before 2.9.32.9.3
Mavenorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxybefore 2.7.52.7.5

Same product

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    36Monitor
  • CVE-2023-30429Apache Pulsar: Incorrect Authorization for Function Worker when using mTLS Authentication through Pulsar Proxy
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    33Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Maven:org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker2.10.1Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker2.7.5Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker2.8.4Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-broker2.9.3Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxy2.10.1Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxy2.7.5Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxy2.8.4Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.apache.pulsar:pulsar-proxy2.9.3Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

A certificate validation error is silently swallowed instead of terminating the connection. Often, code added for a test environment makes its way into production.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-295 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

kotlin
override fun checkServerTrusted(chain: Array<X509Certificate>, type: String) {  // Left empty for the test environment}

Fixed

kotlin
val client = OkHttpClient.Builder()  .certificatePinner(    CertificatePinner.Builder()      .add("api.sirius.example", "sha256/…")      .build()  ).build()

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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