Security advisory

{
  "id": "4dd4938395c70d316a2d02d7946628d72bdc90fea879753cef4b54dba9ee4901",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-17572",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-17572",
    "summary": "In Apache RocketMQ 4.2.0 to 4.6.0, 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. Users of the affected versions should apply one of the following: Upgrade to Apache RocketMQ 4.6.1 or later.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-17572",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-17572",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-17572",
        "GHSA-5x3v-2gxr-59m2"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/rocketmq",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "d9fc71b99152277fd991313d5e3161d812da8454"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "d1b4e47c26576cf4fa543bbdd8c6f09643220bed"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:rocketmq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.2.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.6.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "rocketmq-all-4.6.0",
            "rocketmq-all-4.5.2",
            "rocketmq-all-4.5.1",
            "rocketmq-all-4.4.0",
            "rocketmq-all-4.2.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-17572.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:58.575329362Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fdea1c5407da47a17d5522fa149a097cacded1916c1c1534d46edc6d%40%3Cprivate.rocketmq.apache.org%3E",
        "https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/112"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-17572",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439117,
  "published_at": "2020-05-14T17:15:11.977+00:00"
}