Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties Affecting org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients package, versions [2.3.0,3.8.0)
Threat Intelligence
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- published19 Nov 2024
- disclosed19 Nov 2024
- creditGreg Harris
Introduced: 19 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-31141 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients to version 3.8.0 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 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties through ConfigProviders interface, including the FileConfigProvider, DirectoryConfigProvider, and EnvVarConfigProvider class objects, which allows attackers to read arbitrary contents of the disk and environment variables.
Note:
Users should upgrade to the fixed version, and it is recommended that the JVM system property be set to
org.apache.kafka.automatic.config.providers=none.Users of Kafka Connect with one of the above ConfigProvider implementations specified in their worker config are also recommended to add appropriate
allowlist.patternandallowed.pathsto restrict their operation to appropriate bounds.