CVE-2019-17572: Apache RocketMQ

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache RocketMQ: from 4.2.0, up to and including 4.6.0

Published 2020-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.