CVE-2024-28098Apache Pulsar: Improper Authorization For Topic-Level Policy Management
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The vulnerability allows authenticated users with only produce or consume permissions to modify topic-level policies, such as retention, TTL, and offloading settings. These management operations should be restricted to users with the tenant admin role or super user role. This issue affects Apache Pulsar versions from 2.7.1 to 2.10.5, from 2.11.0 to 2.11.3, from 3.0.0 to 3.0.2, from 3.1.0 to 3.1.2, and 3.2.0. 2.10 Apache Pulsar users should upgrade to at least 2.10.6. 2.11 Apache Pulsar users should upgrade to at least 2.11.4. 3.0 Apache Pulsar users should upgrade to at least 3.0.3. 3.1 Apache Pulsar users should upgrade to at least 3.1.3. 3.2 Apache Pulsar users should upgrade to at least 3.2.1. Users operating versions prior to those listed above should upgrade to the aforementioned patched versions or newer versions.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| apacheCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Pulsar
- affected 2.7.1 – < 2.10.6
- affected 2.11.0 – < 2.11.4
- affected 3.0.0 – < 3.0.3
- affected 3.1.0 – < 3.1.3
- affected 3.2.0 – < 3.2.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-brokerGHSA-g627-r579-rw35 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/3m6923y3wxpdcs9346sjvt8ql9swqc2z (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://pulsar.apache.org/security/CVE-2024-28098/ (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/12/12 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-0927 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g627-r579-rw35 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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