Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
apache/rocketmq
develop @ 10d498c
5
Fixes
4
CVEs
CRITICAL
Peak severity
Highlights
Denial of Service: 4 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
proxy: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Auth Bypass: A critical flaw in the DefaultAuthorizationContextBuilder allowed clients to bypass ACL checks by crafting arbitrary consumer group names on retry topics. This highlights a risk where message routing logic overrides security context checks.
Denial of Service: The gRPC proxy was susceptible to resource exhaustion through unconstrained concurrent calls and uncontrolled keepalive pings. Proper enforcement of server-side limits is critical to prevent malicious clients from starving connection pools.
Denial of Service: A native memory leak was identified during TLS certificate hot-reloads where Netty SslContext references were not properly released, eventually causing the broker process to crash from memory exhaustion.