Spring for Apache Kafka: Improper Validation of Retry Topic Header Values Leads to Retry Sequence Manipulation

Spring Kafka's retry topic infrastructure did not sufficiently validate user-controlled header values before acting on them. A producer could send a record with a crafted retrytopic-attempts header to supply an out-of-range attempt count and cause the retry topic router to misidentify where the...

EUVD-2026-35904

Spring Kafka's retry topic infrastructure did not sufficiently validate user-controlled header values before acting on them. A producer could send a record with a crafted retrytopic-attempts header to supply an out-of-range attempt count and cause the retry topic router to misidentify where the...