GHSA-5QCV-4RPC-JP93 Apache Kafka Clients: Kafka Producer Message Corruption and Misrouting via Buffer Pool Race Condition

A race condition in the Apache Kafka Java producer client’s buffer pool management can cause messages to be silently delivered to incorrect topics. When a produce batch expires due to delivery.timeout.ms while a network request containing that batch is still in flight, the batch’s ByteBuffer is...

Apache Kafka Clients: Kafka Producer Message Corruption and Misrouting via Buffer Pool Race Condition

A race condition in the Apache Kafka Java producer client’s buffer pool management can cause messages to be silently delivered to incorrect topics. When a produce batch expires due to delivery.timeout.ms while a network request containing that batch is still in flight, the batch’s ByteBuffer is...

CVE-2026-35554

Summary of CVE-2026-35554 : A race condition in the Apache Kafka Java producer client’s buffer pool management can cause message corruption and misrouting. When a produce batch expires due to delivery timeout while its network request is in flight, the batch ByteBuffer may be deallocated early an...

CVE-2026-35554 Apache Kafka Clients: Kafka Producer Message Corruption and Misrouting via Buffer Pool Race Condition

A race condition in the Apache Kafka Java producer client’s buffer pool management can cause messages to be silently delivered to incorrect topics. When a produce batch expires due to delivery.timeout.ms while a network request containing that batch is still in flight, the batch’s ByteBuffer is...