Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients package, versions [0.11.0.0, 2.1.1)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEKAFKA-451568
- published 12 Jul 2019
- disclosed 11 Jul 2019
- credit Jason Gustafson
Introduced: 11 Jul 2019
CVE-2018-17196 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients to version 2.1.1 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients is a streaming platform that can publish and subscribe to streams of records, store streams of records in a fault-tolerant durable way, and process streams of records as they occur.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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.