Advisories for Maven/Org.springframework.kafka/Spring-Kafka package

2023

Spring-Kafka has Java Deserialization vulnerability When Improperly Configured

In Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.9 and earlier and versions 2.9.10 and earlier, a possible deserialization attack vector existed, but only if unusual configuration was applied. An attacker would have to construct a malicious serialized object in one of the deserialization exception record headers. Specifically, an application is vulnerable when all of the following are true: The user does not configure an ErrorHandlingDeserializer for the key and/or value of the …