A security vulnerability has been identified in Apache Kafka. It affects all releases since 2.8.0. The vulnerability allows malicious unauthenticated clients to allocate large amounts of memory on brokers. This can lead to brokers hitting OutOfMemoryException and causing denial o
A security vulnerability has been identified in Apache Kafka. It affects all releases since 2.8.0. The vulnerability allows malicious unauthenticated clients to allocate large amounts of memory on brokers. This can lead to brokers hitting OutOfMemoryException and causing denial of service. Example scenarios: - Kafka cluster without authentication: Any clients able to establish a network…
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Kafka | Apache Kafka 2.8.0 2.8.0 , Apache Kafka 2.8.1 2.8.1, Apache Kafka 3.0.0 3.0.0, Apache Kafka 3.0.1 3.0.1, Apache Kafka 3.1.0 3.1.0, Apache Kafka 3.1.1 3.1.1, Apache Kafka 3.2.0 3.2.0, Apache Kafka 3.2.1 3.2.1 |
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.