Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.kafka:kafka package, versions [2.0.0,2.0.2)[2.1.0,2.1.2)[2.3.0,2.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEKAFKA-541854
  • published15 Jan 2020
  • disclosed13 Jan 2020
  • creditOleksandr Diachenko

Introduced: 13 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-12399  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.kafka:kafka to version 2.0.2, 2.1.2, 2.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Any client can issue a request to the same Connect cluster to obtain the connector's task configuration and the response will contain the plaintext secret rather than the externalised secrets variables.

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