Improper Authentication in Apache Kafka

In Apache Kafka 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1 and 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.1, authenticated Kafka clients may use impersonation via a manually crafted protocol message with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication when using the built-in PLAIN or SCRAM server implementations in Apache Kafka...

GHSA-XM78-4M3G-7WM7 Improper Authentication in Apache Kafka

In Apache Kafka 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1 and 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.1, authenticated Kafka clients may use impersonation via a manually crafted protocol message with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication when using the built-in PLAIN or SCRAM server implementations in Apache Kafka...

GHSA-GH27-38P5-MRXC Improper Control of Generation of Code in Apache Kafka

In Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0 to 0.9.0.1, 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1, 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.2, and 1.0.0, authenticated Kafka users may perform action reserved for the Broker via a manually created fetch request interfering with data replication, resulting in data loss...

Improper Control of Generation of Code in Apache Kafka

In Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0 to 0.9.0.1, 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1, 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.2, and 1.0.0, authenticated Kafka users may perform action reserved for the Broker via a manually created fetch request interfering with data replication, resulting in data loss...

Kafka: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients

Some components in Apache Kafka use Arrays.equals to validate a password or key, which is vulnerable to timing attacks that make brute force attacks for such credentials more likely to be successful. Users should upgrade to 2.8.1 or higher, or 3.0.0 or higher where this vulnerability has been...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Kafka affects IBM InfoSphere Information Server (CVE-2021-38153)

Summary A vulnerability in Kafka that is used by IBM InfoSphere Information Server is addressed. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-38153 DESCRIPTION: Apache Kafka could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a timing attack flaw due to the use of "Arrays.equals" to...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.1.0 release and security update

Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.1.0 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat build of Eclipse Vert.x 4.2.5 security update

An update is now available for Red Hat build of Eclipse Vert.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability. For more...

This Week in Spring - March 29th, 2022

Aloha, Spring fans, from beautiful Maui, Hawaii, where I am with my family on a bit of vacation. Its our daughters Spring break and so were enjoying the family time while we can get it! I wanted to take a brief interlude in between the never-enough time on the beach and all the rum to get this...

A Bootiful Podcast: Event streaming guru Jan Svoboda on Apache Kafka Design Patterns

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to event streaming guru at Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka, Jan Svoboda about Apache Kafka design patterns. Kafka summit in London Europe end of April 2022 Kafka Summit London 2022 | April 25-26 | London, UK the Confluent...

Kafka: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients

Some components in Apache Kafka use Arrays.equals to validate a password or key, which is vulnerable to timing attacks that make brute force attacks for such credentials more likely to be successful. Users should upgrade to 2.8.1 or higher, or 3.0.0 or higher where this vulnerability has been...

Kafka: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients

Some components in Apache Kafka use Arrays.equals to validate a password or key, which is vulnerable to timing attacks that make brute force attacks for such credentials more likely to be successful. Users should upgrade to 2.8.1 or higher, or 3.0.0 or higher where this vulnerability has been...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.0.1 release and security update

Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.0.1 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.7 release and security update

Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.7 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

Kafka: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients

Some components in Apache Kafka use Arrays.equals to validate a password or key, which is vulnerable to timing attacks that make brute force attacks for such credentials more likely to be successful. Users should upgrade to 2.8.1 or higher, or 3.0.0 or higher where this vulnerability has been...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.6 release and security update

Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.6 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.0.0 release and security update

Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.0.0 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Apache Kafka and NGINX affect IBM Spectrum Discover

Summary The vulnerabilities in Apache Kafka could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information and the vulnerabilities in NGINX could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an ALPACA application layer protocol content confusion attack, which exploits TLS servers implementing...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-4104) affects InfoSphere Data Replication

Summary There is a vulnerability in the version of Log4j that was included in InfoSphere Data Replication. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-4104 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of untrusted data wh...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.4 release and security update

Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.4 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...