CVE-2020-17520 Auth bypass in Pulsar Manager
Attackers can bypass admin permission checks via special URLs to access any HTTP API in Pulsar Manager.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-17520?
CVE-2020-17520 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Pulsar Manager, published on 18 Dec 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Pulsar manager 0.1.0 version, malicious users will be able to bypass pulsar-manager's admin, permission verification mechanism by constructing special URLs, thereby accessing any HTTP API.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-17520?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Apache Pulsar Manager.
How do I fix CVE-2020-17520?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-17520 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2020-17520 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-17520 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-whwp-phv5-w844.