Temporal Server vulnerabilities

Temporal Server vulnerability allows an authenticated user with write access to a single namespace to execute arbitrary commands on the host running the Worker Service. The command is executed immediately, and since the Worker Service process holds credentials and TLS material for the entire cluster, the impact escalates to full cluster compromise. Affected versions are 1.31.0 through 1.31.2 (before 1.31.3), and the issue is present in default binaries and container images.

Temporal Server in releases 1.30.0 and later decided whether a Workflow completion callback was internal by reading a caller-supplied HTTP header. An authenticated caller with write permission in a single namespace could attach a callback whose 'source' header caused the request to be re-targeted at the internal frontend and executed as a system administrator against the administrative API. Releases 1.25.0 through 1.29.7 are affected by a narrower form of the same defect requiring the header to match a configured cluster ID.

Temporal Server did not bound the work performed while searching for a Schedule's next action time. An authenticated caller with namespace write permission could create or update a Schedule combining a fine-grained cadence with an exclusion calendar that rejects every candidate time, causing excessive CPU consumption in Frontend and Schedule worker components.

The frontend gRPC server's streaming interceptor chain did not include the authorization interceptor. Configured ClaimMapper and Authorizer were bypassed for the AdminService/StreamWorkflowReplicationMessages endpoint, allowing unauthenticated access.

Insecure defaults in open-source Temporal Server before version 1.20 on all platforms allow an attacker to craft a task token with access to a namespace other than the one specified in the request. This requires the namespace UUID and information from the workflow history for the target namespace.