UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-79993
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993
Upstream
Published
2026-09-16T10:16:00Z
Modified
2026-09-24T02:00:59Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The deleteContainer opcode (0x14/20) is processed without verifying the caller's ACL permissions, allowing any authenticated client to delete specific znodes in the data tree regardless of the ACL restrictions on the znode or its parent. This opcode is considered internal-only and the official client doesn't have API for it, but a client that can open a plain TCP session on the ZooKeeper client port (2181 by default) - with NO authentication and NO ACL permissions - can delete any empty persistent znode (including regular persistent nodes, container nodes, and TTL nodes) by issuing the raw protocol OpCode deleteContainer (20). The deleteContainer request path completely skips both the session check and the DELETE ACL check that are enforced by the regular delete (OpCode 2) path. This is an authorization bypass / ACL enforcement bug. This issue affects Apache ZooKeeper: from 3.9.0 through 3.9.5, from 3.8.0 through 3.8.6. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.9.6 or 3.8.7, which fixes the issue.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
zookeeper

Package

Name
zookeeper
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/zookeeper?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.4.13-1
3.4.13-3
3.4.13-3build1
3.4.13-4
3.4.13-5
3.4.13-5build1
3.4.13-5ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-java",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-5ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-mt2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-5ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-st2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-5ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-5ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-5ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper-bin",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-5ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeperd",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-5ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993.json"
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
zookeeper

Package

Name
zookeeper
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/zookeeper?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.4.13-5ubuntu4
3.4.13-6ubuntu2
3.4.13-6ubuntu3
3.4.13-6ubuntu4
3.4.13-6ubuntu4.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-java",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-6ubuntu4.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-mt2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-6ubuntu4.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-st2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-6ubuntu4.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-6ubuntu4.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-6ubuntu4.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper-bin",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-6ubuntu4.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeperd",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-6ubuntu4.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993.json"
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
zookeeper

Package

Name
zookeeper
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/zookeeper?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.8.0-11
3.9.1-1
3.9.1-1build1
3.9.1-1build2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-java",
            "binary_version": "3.9.1-1build2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-mt2",
            "binary_version": "3.9.1-1build2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-st2",
            "binary_version": "3.9.1-1build2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.9.1-1build2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.9.1-1build2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper-bin",
            "binary_version": "3.9.1-1build2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeperd",
            "binary_version": "3.9.1-1build2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993.json"
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
zookeeper

Package

Name
zookeeper
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/zookeeper?arch=source&distro=resolute

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.9.3-1build2
3.9.3-1build3
3.9.4-1
3.9.5-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-java",
            "binary_version": "3.9.5-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-mt2",
            "binary_version": "3.9.5-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-st2",
            "binary_version": "3.9.5-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.9.5-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.9.5-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper-bin",
            "binary_version": "3.9.5-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeperd",
            "binary_version": "3.9.5-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993.json"
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
zookeeper

Package

Name
zookeeper
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/zookeeper?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.4.5+dfsg-1
3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-java",
            "binary_version": "3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-mt2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-st2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper-bin",
            "binary_version": "3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeperd",
            "binary_version": "3.4.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993.json"
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
zookeeper

Package

Name
zookeeper
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/zookeeper?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.4.6-8
3.4.7-1
3.4.8-1
3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-java",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-mt2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-st2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper-bin",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeperd",
            "binary_version": "3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993.json"
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
zookeeper

Package

Name
zookeeper
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/zookeeper?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fbionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.4.10-2
3.4.10-3
3.4.13-3
3.4.13-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-java",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-mt2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libzookeeper-st2",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeper-bin",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "zookeeperd",
            "binary_version": "3.4.13-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79993.json"