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Posted to users@kafka.apache.org by Jason Gustafson <ja...@confluent.io> on 2019/07/10 21:25:40 UTC
CVE-2018-17196: Potential to bypass transaction/idempotent ACL checks
in Apache Kafka
CVE-2018-17196: Potential to bypass transaction/idempotent ACL checks in
Apache Kafka
Severity: Moderate
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: Apache Kafka 0.11.0.0 - 2.1.0
Description: It is possible to manually craft a Produce request which
bypasses transaction/idempotent ACL validation. Only authenticated clients
with Write permission on the respective topics are able to exploit this
vulnerability.
Mitigation: Apache Kafka users should upgrade to 2.1.1 or later where this
vulnerability has been fixed.
Acknowledgements: This issue was reported by Jason Gustafson
Regards,
Jason