July 6, 2023, 4:52 p.m. |

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What is VMware Apache RocketMQ?



Apache RocketMQ is an open-source distributed messaging middleware developed by the Alibaba. It was later donated to Apache.






What is the Attack?

CVE-2023-33246 is a command injection vulnerability that affects Apache RocketMQ versions 5.1 and lower. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute commands as the system user under which RocketMQ is running by using the update configuration function.




Why is this Significant?



This is significant because CVE-2023-33246 is reportedly being …

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