Insufficient Entropy Affecting org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients Open this link in a new tab package, versions [2.1.0,2.1.1)
Attack Complexity
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEKAFKA-73631
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published
22 Jan 2019
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disclosed
22 Jan 2019
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credit
Victor Sartori
Introduced: 22 Jan 2019
CWE-331 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 Insufficient Entropy because in the ExpiringCredentialRefreshingLogin, the number generated by Random has a low entropy therefore more predictable.