CVE-2026-100300
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
Improper handling of exceptional conditions in the quota subsystem of Apache ZooKeeper allows an attacker able to write under the /zookeeper/quota subtree — unauthenticated on default deployments, where that subtree is world-writable — to crash the server's critical request-processing thread and render the on-disk data directory permanently unbootable. This issue affects Apache ZooKeeper up to and including 3.9.6. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.8.8 or 3.9.7, which fixes the issue.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.7
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-04 11:17:06.873000
Last modified
2026-11-04 12:17:05.170000
View original CVE JSON
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"id": "CVE-2026-100300",
"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-11-04T11:17:06.873",
"lastModified": "2026-11-04T12:17:05.170",
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"source": "[email protected]",
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"Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
"Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
"valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED",
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"references": [
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"source": "[email protected]"
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