Shell Command Injection Vulnerability in Nimbus Thrift Server
CVE-2021-38294

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache Storm
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 October 2021

Summary

A Command Injection vulnerability exists in the getTopologyHistory service of the Apache Storm 2.x prior to 2.2.1 and Apache Storm 1.x prior to 1.2.4. A specially crafted thrift request to the Nimbus server allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) prior to authentication.

Affected Version(s)

Apache Storm Apache Storm

Apache Storm Non-Windows v1.0.0

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5fe881f6ca883908b7a...
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https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2021/q4/44
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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165019/Apache-Storm-...
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EPSS Score

91% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Apache Storm would like to thank @pwntester Alvaro Muñoz of the GitHub Security Lab team for reporting this issue.
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