Exploit for Improper Input Validation in Apache Camel

camel-kafka kafka.OVERRIDETOPIC Header Injection Reproducer...

CVE-2026-49098

Improper Input Validation, Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component 'Injection' vulnerability in Apache Camel Kafka Component. The camel-kafka producer can override its configured target topic at runtime from the kafka.OVERRIDETOPIC Exchange header:...

CVE-2026-41731 In Spring for Apache Kafka, overly broad trusted-package matching in header mappers exposes JDK classes to deserialization

JsonKafkaHeaderMapper and the deprecated DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper matched type headers against trusted packages using a prefix check, meaning that trusting any package implicitly trusted all of its subpackages. Combined with Jackson's default bean deserialization, a producer could supply crafted...