CVE-2022-34917

Apache Kafka vulnerability can lead to brokers hitting OutOfMemoryException, causing Denial of Service in maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka

Identifiers

CVE-2022-34917, GHSA-c9h3-c6qj-hh7q

Package Slug

maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka

Vulnerability

Apache Kafka vulnerability can lead to brokers hitting OutOfMemoryException, causing Denial of Service

Description

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 connection to a broker can trigger the issue. - Kafka cluster with SASL authentication: Any clients able to establish a network connection to a broker, without the need for valid SASL credentials, can trigger the issue. - Kafka cluster with TLS authentication: Only clients able to successfully authenticate via TLS can trigger the issue. We advise the users to upgrade the Kafka installations to one of the 3.2.3, 3.1.2, 3.0.2, 2.8.2 versions.

Affected Versions

All versions starting from 2.8.0 before 2.8.2, all versions starting from 3.0.0 before 3.0.2, all versions starting from 3.1.0 before 3.1.2, all versions starting from 3.2.0 before 3.2.3

Solution

Upgrade to versions 2.8.2, 3.0.2, 3.1.2, 3.2.3 or above.

Last Modified

2022-09-22

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