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Apache RocketMQ: Command Execution (CVE-2023-33246)

Apache RocketMQ

Several components of Apache RocketMQ, including NameServer, Broker, and Controller, are exposed to the extranet and lack permission verification. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by using the update configuration function to execute commands as the system users that RocketMQ is running as or achieve the same effect by forging the RocketMQ protocol content. Added to CISA KEV on 2023-09-06.

Why this severity: CVSS 9.8 (NVD), actively exploited (CISA KEV)

Started: Sep 6, 2023
Closed: Sep 6, 2023
CVE: CVE-2023-33246

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Updated Sep 6, 2023

Affected

See vendor advisory / CISA notes (versions not always listed in KEV feed)

Fixed in

See vendor advisory linked in sources

Timeline1

Sep 6, 2023
CISA added CVE-2023-33246 to the KEV catalog (due 2023-09-27).

Advisories3

Notes & caveats

Derived from CISA KEV JSON feed catalogVersion 2026.10.21. Exact affected/fixed version strings are not always in the KEV record — verify against the vendor advisory URL. startedAt uses dateAdded (exploitation may have begun earlier).

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