Hi, An directory traversal vulnerability[1] was discovered in the version RocketMQ 4.6.0 and it affect all versions earlier. And it was fixed in the version 4.6.1 and later according to the CVE-2019-17572. Here is the detail of the vulnerability below:
[CVEID]:CVE-2019-17572 [PRODUCT]:Apache RocketMQ [VERSIONS]:Apache RocketMQ 4.2.0 to 4.6.0 [PROBLEMTYPE]: Directory traversal vulnerability [REFERENCES]:https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fdea1c5407da47a17d5522fa149a097cacded1916c1c1534d46edc6d%40%3Cprivate.rocketmq.apache.org%3E [DESCRIPTION]:When the automatic topic creation in the broker is turned on by default, an evil topic like “../../../../topic2020” is sent from rocketmq-client to the broker, a topic folder will be created in the parent directory in brokers, which leads to a directory traversal vulnerability. [MITIGATION]: Users of the affected versions should apply one of the following: mitigations: - Upgrade to Apache RocketMQ 4.6.1or later [1] https://github.com/apache/rocketmq/issues/1637
